On 10/12/2010 8:35 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
Conversation has been taking place on CodeReview
about whether people
(developer and system administrators) will find it confusing that
there's code in both "extensions/Vector" and "skins/vector" that
are
related but not the same thing.
I personally find it simple to understand and don't expect most
developers and system administrators to feel otherwise, but in the
interest of upholding the community-driven decision making process that
has made MediaWiki what it is, I wanted to bring a little extra
attention to the matter so we can make a decision and move on with our
lives.
I'm interested in views on whether the Vector extension should be named
something else or remain as it is. If your view is that it should be
renamed, suggestions for what it should be named would be useful.
Apologies in advance for the sheer triviality of this matter;
unfortunately these kinds of bike shed problems [2] tend to be
infinitely exciting, while complex matters are more often met with
general disinterest.
I think its a bit disingenuous to say that the only issue is the naming
of the Vector extension. My opposition is to splitting the
UsabilityInitiative into separate extensions for what will very likely
be only a *single release*. And as Chad noted, there's also the question
of whether they should even continue to be an extension. Or to put it
another way, should we intentionally hold off on adding the usability
stuff to core until the next release because we're already adding
ResourceLoader in 1.17? That's hardly a bike shed problem.
--
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)