I agree that we should get Special:Upload working suitably well on mobile too. I'd consider that a blocker for removing the code.
We have to act responsibly when removing code, regardless of how much we dislike it. –Sam On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I say kill it with fire. > > I like the feature but it doesn't seem like it is going to get any > attention and it is effectively abandoned code. If we needed we can always > bring it back without any issues. > > I agree with Kaldari, if we do it we should have a Special:Upload minerva > page in following sprints. > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> I think killing our uploading interface is a probably a good idea >> (assuming maintaining it isn't going to be a priority any time soon). >> However, I think that if we kill it, we should at least clean up >> Special:Upload so that it works OK in Minerva (shouldn't take much work). >> This will give 3rd party users a minimal uploading interface if they want >> it and also better position us for Minerva on desktop. Once it is working >> adequately, we could just have a feature flag to add a link to it from the >> hamburger menu (similar to the prior link to Special:Uploads). >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> A while back we disabled the mobile uploads interface in mobile. It's >>> been sitting in our codebase dormant so people can enable it via user js if >>> necessary but it's broken a few times and doesn't seem to be getting the >>> attention it needs. >>> >>> Given there is now an editing team and from what I understand >>> UploadWizard is being refactored into oojs ui (which will lead to it being >>> less bulky and more mobile friendly) I'd like to suggest we abandon the >>> code in MobileFrontend and help support that effort. Note this effort is >>> likely to take a long long time, since that extension suffers from much >>> technical debt and makes use of jquery ui, which is not available on >>> mobile, so to set expectations we're not going to be in a state where we >>> can enable this on mobile (if we wanted to which again is highly >>> questionable) any time soon (think in units of a year rather than >>> weeks/months). >>> >>> The downside of this is any 3rd parties who are using this uploads code >>> (it's turned on by default) will lose this feature and there is no >>> available alternative. >>> >>> I've written a patch to remove it [1] but I just wanted to post this >>> here to give people the chance to voice any concerns/disagree with this >>> approach. >>> >>> Note: We can always restore the code later on if necessary. I argue this >>> will be easier than fixing/maintaining the existing code. Someone could >>> also put it into a separate extension if they wanted to use it. >>> >>> See also: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97169 >>> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/210084/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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