Following up on this message, people from Editing and Reading are going to meet to discuss basic thinking on roadmap plus patch patchset practices. It's still very much a preliminary stages sort of meeting. I've asked for Florian to be invited in hopes of getting a volunteer perspective from an active volunteer developer in this discussion.
Florian, a question that arose was whether you had any interest in submitting patches for the desktop mode of the site for editing as well? -Adam On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
