Florian, just wanted to acknowledge receipt of the message. Good questions, and we'll be getting back with a response. Not that one could easily forget the importance of this, but I created a tracking task on this:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96742 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Florian Schmidt < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all together, > > > > some time ago, WMF started to re-organize into a new structure to focus on > specific topics. Now, I think, the main tasks are done, so that I want to > bring a (for me, and I think and hope for some others, too) very important > topic back to the ToDo list: mobile editing. > > > > In the past, the mobile web team (in which I mostly contributed, too) > maintained the mobile wikitext editor in a very basic state, and the > VisualEditor team maintained the VisualEditor for tablet users. Now, most > people of the former mobile web team moved to the new vertical > “Readership”, so I’m pretty sure, that the responsibility for all editing > stuff on mobile isn’t in this team anymore (reading ≠ editing), so I > think, that the new editing vertical maintains all the editing stuff, > including mobile editing. Now I have some questions around this topic: > > > > 1. I’m missing MobileFrontend in the list of maintained extensions on > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing ? Are there plans to move all > editing > features away from MobileFrontend, or is the editing code in MobileFrontend > unmaintained now? How volunteers are able to contribute to the right place? > What is the bigger image for editing code in mobile? > > 2. Is there a roadmap for the mobile VisualEditor? At the moment it’s > only available for tablet users (which makes contributing on smartphones a > bit hard, there is only a clean wikitext editor, see one of my next > points). > I know task T93325[1], is that meant to enable mobile VE on smartphones, > too? What is the roadmap for it? > > 3. Are you planning to support a wikitext editor on mobile, too (Like > a light WikiEditor)? At the moment, the wikitext editor in mobile is very > very basic (basically without any feature). I submitted a change[2] to > enable some rally basic features to it, which, technically seems to be > merge able, but no-one of editing reviews it, neither it’s possible for a > volunteer (me :)) to find out, if such a feature matches the global vision > for mobile editing. > > 4. And the last point (any maybe the most important one): Who is the > person (or the group of person) I can contact for mobile related editing > things? In the time of the former mobile web team I have known the persons > I > can ping on irc, e-mail or via mailing lists, now I’m a bit confused, who > is responsible for mobile editing, it’s like a gray veil :) > > > > It would be great to have these points answered :) > > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 > > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/194945/ > > > > Have a nice weekend! > > > > Best, > > Florian > > _______________________________________________ > 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
