If people forget they exist I would say that equates to no one cares about them and no one maintains them. If this is true, we are doing a disservice to our users by providing these skins to our users.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/03/14 20:16, James Forrester wrote: >> >> On 11 March 2014 13:10, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 11/03/14 17:26, Trevor Parscal wrote: >>> >>>> It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins >>>> to >>>> port. >>>> >>>> - Trevor >>>> >>> But that completely ignores the primary users of non-Vector skins >> >> >> Sure, because they aren't in MediaWiki core. Trevor's point is that there >> are four skins to fix *in the same commit* as fixing the skins system, and >> this would be a lot easier if there were instead three, or two, or one. >> >> In fact, this is the *reason* we stopped adding new skins to MediaWiki >> core, and instead they're treated like extensions and sysadmins are >> expected to pay attention to breaking changes. >> >> The wider question about fixing "once and for all" the changes to skins is >> out of scope for this discussion, and would involve some serious thought, >> but that's something that can be done regardless of whether Cologne Blue >> is >> in core. It'd just make it easier. >> >> J. > > > Because they aren't in core, my point is that people forget they exist at > all. They shouldn't do that. > > But yes, having to fix them all in one commit is silly. More on that > elsewhere. > > -I > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
