I've finished the SVGs-to-font and font-to-SVGs scripts. I'll document and
post these in the next couple days.


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Someone in the meeting also claimed that Swig and Twig were compatible,
> and that does appear to be generally true, but I think there are some
> deviations.
>
> - Trevor
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgon...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Someone in one of our meetings mentioned that Twig is a PHP
>> implementation of Mustache. This doesn't seem to be the case though.
>> We need a templating solution that works both on the server and the
>> client.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> > 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
>> >>
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