On Friday, April 7, 2017, 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
Hmm, we should do something better for this. In the mean time, have you considered packaging the javascript as a mediawiki extension that just adds it as a module? Then the gadget could simply be a mw.loader.load( moduleName ) call. -- bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
