Yeh it's also worth pointing out that the installer does this all effortlessly.
So this is really only effecting existing users. That said I wonder if
someone could make this a more effortless step.
If the default fallback skin said 'If you are administrator please run
git submodule update' or 'composer install skin-vector' I think the
reaction might be more forgiving?
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Florian Schmidt
<florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> wrote:
Hmm, now i think about that point: The
"normal" third party user should download the latest build of MediaWiki via the
"tarball installer" [1]. In this packages, Vector (and monobook as well) is
still included. So the "normal" third party user won't see any problem with
this. The users normally download MediaWiki from git are developers or persons who want to
learn MediaWiki development. And (that's my personal point of view), they can figure
out, where to get Vector (or some other skin) from and put it into the installations skin
folder. And if i run a composer command or git, sorry, but form e it doesn't really
matter if i look at the effort that needs to do this.
Just my 2 cents :)
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards
Florian
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Jon Robson
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. August 2014 20:29
An: Wikimedia developers
Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it
means for you
Ideally the fallback skin should make it easier to download a default skin
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins is a horrible page to land on). I'm
currently trying to find the url for Vector E.g.
A link to save this to your skins folder. Either that or we might want to put Vector as a
submodule?
PS.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector needs an update.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:18 AM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Exactly what I warned about. Yet another example
of poor
thinking/execution and exactly what I predicted.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, James HK
<jamesin.hongkong.1(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I just went on to `git pull --rebase origin master` on getting MW
1.24 master and suddenly I see a "Whoops! The default skin for your
wiki ($wgDefaultSkin), vector, is not available."
I have to say that I'm not really interested in modifying the
LocalSettings.php just to get a MW working as it used to be.
I do expect when downloading MW it is at least functional and not
comes with a message of "Whoops!" your missing something.
The other funny thing, is the message which says: "You can paste the
following lines into LocalSettings.php to enable all currently
installed skins:" ( empty )
So I should paste an empty message to `LocalSettings.php`, what the hell!!
If you at least provide a composer download for the standard skins, I
could go on and do `composer mediawiki/vector-skin` without having
the remember the location of some gerrit repo, doing some cryptic git
submodule stuff or care about "mediawiki/skins/*" at all.
Cheers
On 8/7/14, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This has just happened.
The instructions MediaWiki will display should guide you through.
Poke me on IRC if the email I send earlier and the instructions
don't help :)
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