For the record, I find Felipe's suggestion extremely helpful, I've been hosting a few scripts in GitHub for the ease of it and I find it not ideal due to the implications of using third party hosting for scripts.
Chico Venancio 2017-04-07 14:28 GMT-03:00 Mukunda Modell <[email protected]>: > Hi Felipe, > > What you are proposing does sound like it would be a nice and useful > feature for hosting gadgets. > > Could you explain a bit better how you do things currently? Maybe we can > automate the steps to publish code to commons. I just need to better > understand your workflow. > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Felipe Schenone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all! I'm the main developer of the ProveIt gadget > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ProveIt>, a reference > > manager for Wikipedia. The code is tracked via Phabricator, reviewed via > > Gerrit, and served to the various Wikipedias from Commons. Each wiki has > a > > unique initialization code > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js> that sets > some > > local config and then requests the main code from Commons (JavaScript, > CSS > > and JSON). Every time I merge a new change via Gerrit, I need to manually > > update the Commons pages so that the Wikipedias have the latest code. > > > > This is sub-optimal. Ideally, the Wikipedias should request the code > > directly from Diffusion, so that when developers merge new changes, they > > are immediately available (and we don't need interface rights or manual > > work in Commons). However, when I go to the Diffusion of the gadget > > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1884/>, click on the main > > proveit.js file, and click on "View Raw File", I get to a URL like the > > following: > > https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/iapd7kogqo5x2naywwlq/PHID- > > FILE-dkxynh42aocsg5gmepxw/proveit.js > > The URL of the raw file changes with every click and doesn't have the > > proper MIME type header, so it's useless for serving the code. > > > > I think it would be very useful, for my case and others, to have a stable > > URL that serves the latest code with the proper MIME type heading. In > other > > words, a CDN, which may or may not be integrated with Diffusion. > > > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
