On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:40:32 +0200, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I would urge much focus. Creating a beta feature with a "fixed header element that allows someone to report an issue on their current page" seems like overkill. It solves a problem the beta feature discussions forums already solve and I'm already stretched thin in what I am being asked to do.
The only real reason to have a beta feature here is if we plan on enabling mediawiki ui form elements everywhere, which is what I thought we were working for. This would be a super simple beta feature to knock up as currently it is only turning on a global variable, the only hard bit creating an image for it to show up on the beta features preference page.
I worry that currently no one is looking at the website Matt setup, so I'd be keen to explore a way of getting this project more visibility and keep it moving whilst there is still momentum.
A number of critical issues with new layout were identified (e.g. on action=delete, action=history, Special:Log, …). Are these being worked on or tracked somewhere? I think we should fix the obvious problems before we start even talking about making this a BetaFeature, or we risk the communities rightfully raging at us for deploying completely broken software again.