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From:
John Du Hart <compwhizii@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MobileFrontend & John Du Hart's rewrite
To: Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Thanks to everybody for talking through this and clarifying the issues.
So I'd like to move forward and figure out how we all should proceed.
I'm completely fine with renaming MobileFrontEnd2 to help avoid
confusion. :-) I'll look at the suggestions and pick one.
My ideal scenario would be me continuing this rewrite while the mobile
team continues with feature development on MobileFrontend. I really
believe that there are several issues with the current MobileFrontend
that are better resolved with a full rewrite instead of a slow
refactoring of the existing extension. But I'm also happy to work with
Arthur to refactor and rewrite the current MobileFrontend more gradually
to resolve the issues raised.
I could work with the mobile team to come up with a checklist of goals
to complete in the refactoring and rewriting before we can write off the
need for a replacement for MobileFrontend. Functionaility wise,
MobileFrontend2 is a clone of the original with very minimal UI changes.
Maybe we could write Selenium tests for this? Maybe I could work with
Chris McMahon to learn what tests need writing for this extension and
write them.