On 24 May 2014 14:12, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are there any fundamental, insurmountable issues with having skins in > 'skins/' > in WMF production? >
I am not a developer and therefore I cannot speak for them, but from a product perspective I have no insurmountable issues with either the /skins/ or the /extensions/ solution. It seems that there's pros and cons for each solution, so as long as it's handled appropriately (and it certainly seems to me like you're doing that), then you've got my support. > So, I'm proposing an experiment: We can evaluate this almost painlessly by > converting the current Nostalgia extension-skin to a skin in my proposed > format, deploying it on nostalgia.wikimedia.org (after doing whatever > changes > are necessary to deployment things first) and seeing what happens. This > should > not affect the rest of the cluster, and even catastrophic failures would > have > a very tiny "surface area". If it turns out that this is really not going > to > work, we can always revert all changes and stick with stuffing skins in > 'extensions/' instead. > > Tim, Brion, Dan: How does this look to you? > Well, you've got my endorsement! How can I help you make this happen? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
