We already seem very stretched and code review is slow. I would like us to exercise caution on adding new things to the styleguide. Most of the work so far has been moving existing components from repositories into core so that other teams can share their work.
I don't think we should be adding new components without delivering user value. We should be looking to build new components first as and when needed in our projects whether it be mobile, VE, Flow, Multimedia work etc..
I really would encourage us to focus on forms and the bare minimum needed to get this out into production.
Radio buttons and <select> menus seem like the missing pieces of the puzzle right now that will make the LSG seem more complete and help us push through these form designs. I'd really encourage us to focus on getting those through - are there any teams currently needing these or is this likely to be a 20% type project?
Jon
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks Steven thats correct. The greatest strength and weakness of the LSG is the same things, we'll know when you can use something in production and when it breaks, but we can't show it "live" until its in core.
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
The appearance/size change for e.g. checkboxes is very noticeable, and right now it's inconsistent with other controls that are nearby, like radiobuttons and dropdowns. The first thing is to actually finish the style guide and consistently apply it. http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/index.html is very incomplete right now, when can we expect an updated version, or is there another one I should be looking at?
This is a situation that's partially a consequence of how we've decided to generate the living style guide. It only reflects what is in the codebase now really, so it doesn't (and really can't) contain style guidelines for future iterations on other controls.
The best place to see proposed designs is the Trello board for mediawiki.ui (https://trello.com/b/EXtVTJxJ). When things are finalized enough on the UX side to more seriously request Jared is pushing them to Bugzilla.
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