Thanks for summarizing the meeting Jon. So, let's get Twig/Swig into core then, eh? :)
- Trevor On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Shahyar, Juliusz, Trevor, Kaldari, Roan and I sat down yesterday and > talked about the future of skins. Hopefully this mail summarises what > we talked about and what we agreed on. Feel free to add anything, or > ask any questions in the likely event that I've misinterpreted > something we talked about or this is unclear :) > > Specifically we talked about how we are unhappy with how difficult it > currently is for developers to create a skin. The skin class involves > too many functions and does more than a skin should do e.g. manage > classes on the body, worry about script tags and style tags. > > Trevor is going to create a base set of widgets, for example a list > generator to generate things like a list of links to user tools. The > widgets will be agnostic to how they are rendered - some may use > templates, some may not. > > We identified the new skin system will have two long term goals: > 1) We would like to get to the point where a new skin can be built by > simply copying and pasting a master template and writing a new css > file. > 2) Should be possible for us in future to re-render an entire page via > JavaScript and using the modern history push state re-render any page > via the API. (Whether we'd want to do this is another consideration > but we would like to have an architecture that is powerful enough to > support such a thing) > > As next steps we agreed to do the following: > > 1) Trevor is going to build a watch star widget on client and server. > We identified that the existing watch star code is poorly written and > has resulted in MobileFrontend rewriting it. We decided to target this > as it is a simple enough example that it doesn't need a template. It's > small and contained enough that we hope this will allow us to share > ideas and codify a lot of those. Trevor is hoping to begin working on > this the week of the 2nd September. > > 2) We need a templating system in core. Trevor is going to do some > research on server side templating systems. We hope that the > templating RFC [1] can get resolved however we are getting to a point > that we need one as soon as possible and do not want to be blocked by > the outcome of this RFC, especially given a mustache based templating > language can address all our current requirements. > > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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