On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Michael Dale <md...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Very cool. Especially given the development trajectory of Ace to become > the "eclipse" of web IDEs there will be a lot of interesting > possibilities as we could develop our own mediaWiki centric plugins for > the platform. > > I can't help but think about where this is ideally headed ;) > > A gitorius type system for easy branching with mediaWiki.org code review > style tools, with in browser editing. With seemless workflows for going > from per user developing and testing on the live site, to commits to > your personal repository, to being reviewed and tested by other > developers, to being enabled by interested users, to being enabled by > default if so desired. > [snip lots of awesome sauce] I, for one, welcome our new integrated development overlords! :D I started up a page of notes and smaller steps on the road to awesomeness which we can start expanding on: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_Studio The main things I want to hit in the immediate future are syntax highlighting (including clear detection of parse errors, which I don't think Ace does yet) for editing gadgets and site & user scripts. For the upcoming parser stuff we'll want to do lots of experiments, and rapid prototyping the JavaScript-side implementations seems like a good way to get stuff into preliminary testing quickly, so being able to tweak code and immediately re-run it on something is going to be nice. I like the idea of being able to work on a core or extension JS module "in-place" too though, that could be interesting. :) Not everything will be amenable to being reloaded in the middle of a page view, but things that are could benefit from that kind of testing turnover. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
