Added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours . :)
Sumana On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We're hosting a conversation about standardization and continued > development of front-end libraries in MW core on 6/25, 5:30 PM UTC, > #wikimedia-office. > > This is driven by a recognized need for teams at WMF to work more > effectively on user-facing features and reduce duplication of efforts > and inconsistencies across extensions. We're willing to take a bit of > a hit on the short term velocity of feature development to build a > more robust, consistent and developer-friendly platform. > > Timo Tijhof, Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw have proposed a > systematic effort to improve MW core's front-end libraries, building > on existing efforts (see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization for a messy but > reasonably comprehensive overview of some of the inconsistencies and > wheel duplication we need to solve). > > This will be done in partnership with other interested front-end > engineers across the org and the community. > > We'll try to come up with a clear scope of work, such as: > > - having Mobile and VisualEditor depend on the same front-end > libraries in MW core and use them effectively > - eliminating dependencies on jQuery UI from all WMF-deployed code, to > be replaced with a MediaWiki-native look and feel > - creating a proper living style guide and UX standardization pipeline > in partnership with the WMF UX team. > > This conversation is just a first step to ensure this effort has > visibility from the start, and major architectural changes will go > through the usual public conversations. > > Thanks, > > Erik > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
