awesome !
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 19:45, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice! Thanks for working on this. > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Dear all > Back in 2014, Legoktm made the sensible suggestion [1] that we should pull > the skin portion of code from the MobileFrontend extension. > > I've spent the last few months making it possible and I now plan to make this > a reality. I now plan to make this change on the 12th&13th July with Chad > (RainbowSprinkles) [2]. > > I'm writing to give notice; answer questions and minimise the disruption that > may cause. A while back when Vector was pulled out of MediaWiki core, there > was a little bit of pain so I'm keen to help people avoid this. > > Developers: > Please make sure you update vagrant. Vagrant will install the new skin as > part of the MobileFrontend role and provided you do `vagrant git-update` you > will not experience any breakage. > > If you are not using Vagrant, please install the new skin [3] and load it > using wfLoadSkin (after including MobileFrontend extension). When > MobileFrontend stops working thats a sign you need to pull the latest code > from Master. > > 3rd parties who are using MobileFrontend in deployed wikis > Please be aware of this change when updating MobileFrontend. To be safe you > should install the MinervaNeue skin [3] as part of your deploy process and > keep an eye on compatibility. > > The MinervaNeue skin and MobileFrontend are being kept backwards > compatibility to ensure we do not break anything in Wikimedia's production > cluster, which is detailed in the Phabricator task [4]. > > Translators > As part of the migration I will be porting over translations to the new skin > from MobileFrontend. There may be some changes to the message keys during > this period of time so please bare this in mind when translating. The goal is > to avoid unnecessary translations! > > Why are you doing this?!!? > I've tried to write up this here [5]. Feel free to ask questions on the talk > page there. It's a good conversation to have. > > Can I just use MobileFrontend? > Sure. If you just have MobileFrontend it will give you a separate mobile site > and you are free to use whatever skin you want there. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Setup_a_skin > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Setup_a_skin> > > Can I just use the Minerva skin and throw away my mobile site? > Not quite. But that's the next step that this enables... :) More on that > later. > > Any questions? > Feel free to reply to this thread with any concerns or questions you have or > any way I can improve this migration. > > Can I do nothing? > If you do not update sure, but if you are updating your instance it's going > to break soon if you do not do anything. > > Let me know if any questions! > Jon > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366> > [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_10th > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_10th> > [3] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue > <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue> > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166748 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166748> > [5] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/MobileFrontend_and_Minerva#..._but_why_do_we_care_about_Minerva_as_a_desktop_skin.3F > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/MobileFrontend_and_Minerva#..._but_why_do_we_care_about_Minerva_as_a_desktop_skin.3F> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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