On Jan 20, 2015 12:34 PM, "Brion Vibber" <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Quick update: > > I've had a great experience working on our mobile apps, but it's time to > get back to core MediaWiki and help "clean my own house"... now that we've > got Mobile Apps fully staffed I'm leaving the mobile department and will be > reporting directly to Damon within WMF Engineering. > > First -- huge thanks to Monte and Dan and Kristen and Dmitry and Bernd and > of course Tomasz!! and everybody else who's been awesome in Mobile Apps -- > and also to the rest of the mobile team, who have become too many to list > in a concise email. :) > > > For the moment I'm going to get back up to speed with the Architecture > Committee and push at general MediaWiki issues. As we determine the fate of > committees and narrow down what are our priority projects, my focus may > narrow a to getting some particular things done over the next months. > > > A few general notes: > > * Working in mobile apps reminded me how important our APIs are -- our > ability to make flexible interfaces that work in different form factors and > different technology stacks is dependent on maintaining a good API. This > needs work. :) > > This doesn't just mean interacting with "api.php" -- we need clean > configuration, data, etc interfaces as well, especially if we want people > to contribute in ways other than raw text editing. There's a lot to clean > up... > > * Mobile mobile mobile! I've heard some folks complain that while there's a > lot of talk about "mobile-first" and similar there aren't always concrete > explanations yet of what that means. I hope to bring some of the excitement > we've seen in Mobile about Wikidata, better queries, better visual/user > interaction design, and generally making things *work for users*. > > * Breaking or working around the "PHP barrier" for third-party MediaWiki > users: I hope to get the question of services resolved one way or another > -- either by us officially dropping "shared PHP hosting" support or by > making sure we have "pure PHP" implementations of things that are required > to operate -- which is mostly dependent on having good interfaces and APIs > so that multiple implementations can be written and maintained compatibly... > > * Future stuff -- new media types, narrow-field editing, natural language > queries? WHO KNOWS! I'll be researching more crazy stuff in my additional > time. > > > I'll see many of you at the Dev Summit soon enough -- don't be shy about > pestering me with concerns and ideas about priorities. :) > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Exciting times! Im sure this will result in many new great things for MediaWiki. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
