Yeh it's also worth pointing out that the installer does this all effortlessly. So this is really only effecting existing users. That said I wonder if someone could make this a more effortless step. If the default fallback skin said 'If you are administrator please run git submodule update' or 'composer install skin-vector' I think the reaction might be more forgiving?
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Florian Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
