Re: [WikimediaMobile] Breaking apart MobileFrontend's front and back ends

[Brian Gerstle]

A valiant effort, Sam!  Would love to hear more about your personal
experience tackling a legacy component w/ a TDD approach when all is said
and done.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Bahodir Mansurov 
wrote:

> Looks interesting!
>
> On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 14:52 +0100, Sam Smith wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've been encouraged to write an update on a 1%* project that I've
> > been
> > working on: separating the HTML formatter and APIs from the Minerva
> > skin.
> >
> > Right now, I've created a new extension, which contains the code,
> > associated configuration variables, and unit/integration tests [0]
> > and am
> > running it alongside a cut down version of the MobileFrontend
> > extension [1]
> > locally.
> >
> > My long-term goal is to further separate out the HTML formatter into
> > a
> > versioned library and to version the API extension so that we can
> > make
> > smaller, more easily reasoned about changes to smaller, more easily
> > reasoned about components and update the (relative) titan that is the
> > MobileFrontend extension more responsibly.
> >
> > My short-term goals are:
> >
> > * to *cover* the new extension in integration tests so that I can
> > make
> > structural changes
> > * to get the unit tests passing without hitting the DB
> > * to document the new extension thoroughly
> > * to reduce the binding between the two extensions to exactly one
> > call [2]
> > * to get the extension deployed
> >
> > Cool? Cool!
> >
> > –Sam
> >
> > * Not a typo
> >
> > [0] https://github.com/phuedx/MobileView
> > [1] https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend
> > [2]
> > https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions
> > -MobileFrontend/blob/dd9e99e0f805812914b8d3266dc17239b2968a24/include
> > s/MobileFrontend.body.php#L38
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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Breaking apart MobileFrontend's front and back ends

[Bahodir Mansurov]

Looks interesting!

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 14:52 +0100, Sam Smith wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been encouraged to write an update on a 1%* project that I've 
> been
> working on: separating the HTML formatter and APIs from the Minerva 
> skin.
> 
> Right now, I've created a new extension, which contains the code,
> associated configuration variables, and unit/integration tests [0] 
> and am
> running it alongside a cut down version of the MobileFrontend 
> extension [1]
> locally.
> 
> My long-term goal is to further separate out the HTML formatter into 
> a
> versioned library and to version the API extension so that we can 
> make
> smaller, more easily reasoned about changes to smaller, more easily
> reasoned about components and update the (relative) titan that is the
> MobileFrontend extension more responsibly.
> 
> My short-term goals are:
> 
> * to *cover* the new extension in integration tests so that I can 
> make
> structural changes
> * to get the unit tests passing without hitting the DB
> * to document the new extension thoroughly
> * to reduce the binding between the two extensions to exactly one 
> call [2]
> * to get the extension deployed
> 
> Cool? Cool!
> 
> –Sam
> 
> * Not a typo
> 
> [0] https://github.com/phuedx/MobileView
> [1] https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend
> [2]
> https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions
> -MobileFrontend/blob/dd9e99e0f805812914b8d3266dc17239b2968a24/include
> s/MobileFrontend.body.php#L38
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