+1000 to what Max says. It really is kinda obvious to anyone who needs to know how to get into debug mode and if not there are wiki pages and if not it's easy enough to find out if you care enough.
That said debug mode could definitely be improved and I'm glad you brought this topic up Max. A few things of the top of my head I'd like to see: * RTL working in debug mode * The code in ResourceLoader really could do with a good refactor - there are far too many different code paths and it would be good if we could simplify this to get them as close as possible. When I've worked with RL in the past to design my own modules which involves files I've had a lot of headaches trying to get things to work in both debug mode and non-debug mode (JavaScript templates [1] being one concrete example) - and even then the result wasn't quite was I was hoping for in that debug mode uses load.php urls to inject JavaScript before the file that needs it. [1] https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git/1f3c57137afae1d0f8ac602b62dccc741893d670/includes%2Fmodules%2FMFResourceLoaderModule.php On 11 Dec 2013 08:33, "Max Semenik" <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11.12.2013, 19:36 Brian wrote: > > >> > >> As everybody else already said, less bandwidth is a good thing for most > >> people, obfuscation is OK when the source is available elsewhere, and > >> debug=true is not hard for developers to find. > >> > > > I'd actually disagree with the assertion that debug=true is easy to > > find, particularly for people who aren't active developers. Some > > random on the internet who just wants to see what our js looks like > > (out of curiosity or whatever) is not going to be able to find > > debug=true. > > If they look at the URL it will be pretty obvious because all of them > have debug=false as first parameter. > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
