I've read a few of the CR threads and onwiki discussion about this and I'm surprised by the negativity expressed towards the vol. developer for whatever reason whom is planning to work on this, While yes this extension does plan to have the same or similar feature set in the end, it is planning on using a different method for the end result (as to my basic and non codey knowledge) and trying not to threaten the current usability or ability to push the extension to the cluster in the mean time.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Patrick Reilly <prei...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > John DuHart has embarked on a complete rewrite of the current Mobile > Frontend extension, and has decided to name it 'MobileFrontend2'. > While we would prefer it if we could work cooperatively to resolve the > existing open issues in the current MobileFrontend extension and maintain > continuity. It's understandable why John would prefer to > undertake his complete rewrite. I think it's actually better completely out from the current extension for a few reasons, * MF1 is currently a cluster extension so all the code needs to be reviewed before deployed * MF1 is already regularly deployed (close to weekly iirc) * John is working on having it [MF2] operate in a completely different method than current [MF1] so it would avoid possible breakage and compatibility issues > However, we feel that naming the rewrite 'MobileFrontend2' is problematic > as users have already started to confuse it with the current extension. Whom? It's not like it's really advertised anywhere apart from CR and SVN so it shouldn't be causing that many issues at the current stage. > — The Mobile Team Nice to see the team working on the weekend. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
