On 06/16/2014 07:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Big changes are coming to MediaWiki's skin systems this summer; Friday > at 18:00 UTC is a chance to ask for details, review code, and watch out > for snags. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-20 > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework > has Trevor Parscal's proposal: "Skins can be made out of widgets, server > and client side objects which render/manage discrete elements on the > page. A skin can then have a standard API on the server and client, > which other software can rely on." > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Separating_skins_from_core_MediaWiki has > Bartosz's (MatmaRex's) work: "tl;dr Let's start putting all skins files > in a single directory, and let's use a grown-up structure with one class > per file + separate init code for them. Okay?" He also has several > patches awaiting review, such as: > > 136325: beta: bring in mediawiki/skins.git > 136531: SkinTemplate: Move $stylename to Skin and soft-deprecate > 138652: Support for enabling skins in the installer > 135413: Separate Vector skin from core > 138795: Separate MonoBook skin from core > 138368: Stop using a suboptimal structure for Vector's variants menu > 138369: Stop using a suboptimal structure for Vector's variants menu > (cont.) > 136615: SpecialVersion: Show 'Skins' and 'Extensions' in separate sections > > Links at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-20#Topics > . We'll meet in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. Time: > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Skin+discussion&iso=20140620T18&p1=1440&ah=1 > > > 7pm-8pm London > 2pm-3pm Washington, DC > 11am-noon San Francisco > > Sorry that the timing's bad for Asia/Australia; I know MatmaRex and > Trevor do respond to onwiki/Gerrit comments if you want to comment there. > > If we have extra time this Friday, perhaps people can comment on > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Alternate_disclosure_policy > or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/SOA_Authentication .
This will be in about 45 minutes in #wikimedia-office. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
