Nice! Thanks for working on this. On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Dear all > Back in 2014, Legoktm made the sensible suggestion [1] that we should pull > the skin portion of code from the MobileFrontend extension. > > I've spent the last few months making it possible and I now plan to make > this a reality. I now plan to make this change on the 12th&13th July with > Chad (RainbowSprinkles) [2]. > > I'm writing to give notice; answer questions and minimise the disruption > that may cause. A while back when Vector was pulled out of MediaWiki core, > there was a little bit of pain so I'm keen to help people avoid this. > > *Developers:* > Please make sure you update vagrant. Vagrant will install the new skin as > part of the MobileFrontend role and provided you do `vagrant git-update` > you will not experience any breakage. > > If you are not using Vagrant, please install the new skin [3] and load it > using wfLoadSkin (after including MobileFrontend extension). When > MobileFrontend stops working thats a sign you need to pull the latest code > from Master. > > *3rd parties who are using MobileFrontend in deployed wikis* > Please be aware of this change when updating MobileFrontend. To be safe > you should install the MinervaNeue skin [3] as part of your deploy process > and keep an eye on compatibility. > > The MinervaNeue skin and MobileFrontend are being kept backwards > compatibility to ensure we do not break anything in Wikimedia's production > cluster, which is detailed in the Phabricator task [4]. > > *Translators* > As part of the migration I will be porting over translations to the new > skin from MobileFrontend. There may be some changes to the message keys > during this period of time so please bare this in mind when translating. > The goal is to avoid unnecessary translations! > > *Why are you doing this?!!?* > I've tried to write up this here [5]. Feel free to ask questions on the > talk page there. It's a good conversation to have. > > *Can I just use MobileFrontend?* > Sure. If you just have MobileFrontend it will give you a separate mobile > site and you are free to use whatever skin you want there. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Setup_a_skin > > *Can I just use the Minerva skin and throw away my mobile site?* > Not quite. But that's the next step that this enables... :) More on that > later. > > *Any questions?* > Feel free to reply to this thread with any concerns or questions you have > or any way I can improve this migration. > > *Can I do nothing?* > If you do not update sure, but if you are updating your instance it's > going to break soon if you do not do anything. > > Let me know if any questions! > Jon > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366 > [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_10th > [3] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-MinervaNeue > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166748 > [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/ > MobileFrontend_and_Minerva#..._but_why_do_we_care_about_ > Minerva_as_a_desktop_skin.3F > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
