OOjs UI is used as a core component of MediaWiki's user interfaces, including heavy use in WMF-sponsored initiatives such as VE and Flow and slowly increasing use within core; as such it should probably be maintained by the MediaWiki Core team at Wikimedia Foundation.
Unfortunately since the mid-2015 Engineering department reorgs, there is no such team... If we can't lobby management to (re)create one, we'll have to set up a "cross-functional" skunkworks team if we want anything big to get done. I would love to be involved, but I'm already stretched thin with multimedia-related commitments and probably don't have time to be the main point person. But if there's a few others who would like to chip in... maybe we can make some decisions and push some code around! -- brion On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected] > wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 2015-12-04 18:59, Adam Baso wrote: > > > >> I do wonder though if we've spent much time studying the ease of getting > >> at > >> least some part of oojs-ui split out or making it so that new stuff > going > >> forward is part of the oojs-ui family but it's not as monolithich? > >> > > > > Not any more than what is written at < > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113681#1673158>, as far as I know. > > > > OOjs UI doesn't have a dedicated team (or even a dedicated person) > > supporting it. The changes are mostly driven by whatever the VisualEditor > > or Design teams need, and what they are willing to implement themselves > > (and to a lesser extent, Multimedia team and random people like Brad or > > Florian). This makes it difficult to make any big changes happen. > > > > If OOjs UI is the thing that we're supposed to be using in the future for > our UI stuff, it's very concerning that further development is blocked on > T113681 but no one is planning on working on that task or feels ownership > for the thing. > > Is someone going to step up to actually own and maintain the thing? Or > should we consider declaring it a failure and figure out a plan to move > away from it, if no one wants to maintain our home-grown JS UI library > anymore? > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > 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
