Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19 (and LTS)

2013-01-13 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
But some changes were hard to adapt, for example at some point the definition of SpecialPage::userCanExecute() changed from public function userCanExecute( $user ) to public function userCanExecute( User $user ) with typecheck. Then extension's special pages that inherited from SpecialPage an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-13 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
9 Январь 2013 г. 4:09:21 пользователь James Forrester (jforres...@wikimedia.org) написал: On 4 January 2013 09:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Would it be possible to adapt the Visual Editor to run under 1.19? Possible? Yes. However, it would involve back-porting a number of changes that hav

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19 (and LTS)

2013-01-08 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 01/08/2013 07:08 PM, James Forrester wrote: > On 4 January 2013 09:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: >> Would it be possible to adapt the Visual Editor to run under 1.19? > > Possible? Yes. However, it would involve back-porting a number of > changes that have been made to core since then Oh, so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-08 Thread David Gerard
On 9 January 2013 00:08, James Forrester wrote: > Understood (though I didn't know about 1.19 being an LTS release; who > is doing the supporting, exactly, and what does 'support' entail here? > [*] is unclear…). Tarball version is "supported" (security fixes, etc) for the purpose of not having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-08 Thread James Forrester
On 4 January 2013 09:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Would it be possible to adapt the Visual Editor to run under 1.19? Possible? Yes. However, it would involve back-porting a number of changes that have been made to core since then (and will no-doubt continue to be added as we discover new ways

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19 - [FCKeditor issues]

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 04.01.2013 19:57, schrieb Mark A. Hershberger: > Even more reason for us to get VE working against 1.19. I saw that > some people have added instructions for FCKeditor on 1.19, but VE > would be much more compelling if we can get it working. Yes! Switching between MediaWiki Wiki syntax and th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19 - [FCKeditor issues]

2013-01-04 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 01/04/2013 01:26 PM, Thomas Gries wrote: > I must warn users, because the FCKeditor as such has known security issues. Even more reason for us to get VE working against 1.19. I saw that some people have added instructions for FCKeditor on 1.19, but VE would be much more compelling if we can ge

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19 - [FCKeditor issues]

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 04.01.2013 18:02, schrieb Mark A. Hershberger: > > * FCKeditor is no longer supported for MediaWiki, but people are still > using it and, for some reason, like what it provides. If we can make > the Visual Editor available to them, I'm hoping the need for FCKeditor > will disappear. Hi Mark, an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-04 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 01/04/2013 09:02 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > There is a dependency on Parsoid and node.js, of course, that a > FCKeditor doesn't need, but I'm assuming right now that if MediaWiki > works with the extension, then the Parsoid instance will just run. This should be the case. Parsoid only int

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-04 Thread Chris McMahon
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 4 January 2013 17:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > > Is anyone else interested in helping to make this happen? > > > I have no coding ability but would LOVE this for our work 1.19 > instances, and would be most pleased to test. > > I th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-04 Thread David Gerard
On 4 January 2013 17:02, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Is anyone else interested in helping to make this happen? I have no coding ability but would LOVE this for our work 1.19 instances, and would be most pleased to test. - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] Adapting Visual Editor for 1.19

2013-01-04 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Would it be possible to adapt the Visual Editor to run under 1.19? I have a couple of reasons for wanting that: * 1.19 is our LTS release. Visual Editor looks awesome and I'd like to provide people who are stuck on older versions of MediaWiki with a persuasive reason to upgrade to 1.19 at least.