On 9 August 2014 21:04, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Agreed; "mobilefrontend" and "mobilefrintend-tests" would probably work > as > > a pair, same with cirrus etc. however the list of roles is getting kinda > > long and may need a better display with descriptions and search in the > > future... If we add lots more extensions *and* their optional tests or > > configs it's going to be a lot. :) > > I have started to work on some patches that will change the way that > we manage the collection of enabled roles (hiera for the puppet nerds > in the audience). When I was talking to Ori about this he had an idea > that I dismissed initially, but which might actually be a cool thing > to do. His idea was to make the role toggling be manageable via a web > interface on the VM's webserver. I think his actual idea may have > involved making a MW extension that managed the entire local hiera > settings file. I'm not sure that I'm in love with the wikiification > idea, but if we want a cross-platform interface with search, sort and > grouping... a web app seems like a reasonable thing we could create. >
That sounds like it could be really neat. Right now we only one VisualEditor role which doesn't exactly match any particular wiki, but although we could create lots of sub-roles to enable and disable certain features and alter their configuration, it's not clear if that's a good approach to take (as well as being rather delicate and confusing for others). Not sure if you had in mind sub-roles as well as a more simple list of checkboxen for each role, but maybe that could be a longer-term enhancement if we do go down this route. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
