Hmm, now i think about that point: The "normal" third party user should download the latest build of MediaWiki via the "tarball installer" [1]. In this packages, Vector (and monobook as well) is still included. So the "normal" third party user won't see any problem with this. The users normally download MediaWiki from git are developers or persons who want to learn MediaWiki development. And (that's my personal point of view), they can figure out, where to get Vector (or some other skin) from and put it into the installations skin folder. And if i run a composer command or git, sorry, but form e it doesn't really matter if i look at the effort that needs to do this.
Just my 2 cents :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards Florian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jon Robson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. August 2014 20:29 An: Wikimedia developers Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you Ideally the fallback skin should make it easier to download a default skin (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins is a horrible page to land on). I'm currently trying to find the url for Vector E.g. A link to save this to your skins folder. Either that or we might want to put Vector as a submodule? PS. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector needs an update. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly what I warned about. Yet another example of poor > thinking/execution and exactly what I predicted. > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, James HK > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just went on to `git pull --rebase origin master` on getting MW >> 1.24 master and suddenly I see a "Whoops! The default skin for your >> wiki ($wgDefaultSkin), vector, is not available." >> >> I have to say that I'm not really interested in modifying the >> LocalSettings.php just to get a MW working as it used to be. >> >> I do expect when downloading MW it is at least functional and not >> comes with a message of "Whoops!" your missing something. >> >> The other funny thing, is the message which says: "You can paste the >> following lines into LocalSettings.php to enable all currently >> installed skins:" ( empty ) >> >> So I should paste an empty message to `LocalSettings.php`, what the hell!! >> >> If you at least provide a composer download for the standard skins, I >> could go on and do `composer mediawiki/vector-skin` without having >> the remember the location of some gerrit repo, doing some cryptic git >> submodule stuff or care about "mediawiki/skins/*" at all. >> >> Cheers >> >> On 8/7/14, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This has just happened. >> > >> > The instructions MediaWiki will display should guide you through. >> > Poke me on IRC if the email I send earlier and the instructions >> > don't help :) >> > >> > -- >> > Matma Rex >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
