Hello everyone,
In September, I submitted a proposal to the Technical Decision Making
Process called "Modern interfaces for all users" [1]. This proposal was
somewhat abstract, but it was about different ways we could render user
interfaces on the server, given that our server-side code is written in
PHP, but most UI code is written in JavaScript (including Codex[2], the new
library of shared UI components being developed by the Design Systems Team).
One solution that many people have been asking for for some time is Vue's
server-side rendering (SSR) feature[3]. Supporting Vue SSR in MediaWiki
will require in-depth architecture discussions, and I think that will
eventually be part of this TDMP too. However, there are also other
approaches for rendering UI components on the server which may be more
appropriate, depending on the situation. So before we delve into
architecture and implementation for Vue SSR, we should first discuss which
methods of rendering UIs on the server we want to use in which situations,
both to confirm that we really do need Vue SSR, and to inform the
architecture discussion.
To that end, I've started a discussion on a Phabricator task where I list
different server rendering methods and make a simple (probably too simple)
proposal for when to use which. If you're interested in this topic, please
go to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322163 and participate in the
discussion there.
Roan Kattouw
Lead engineer on the Design Systems Team at the Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317270
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Codex
[3] https://vuejs.org/guide/scaling-up/ssr.html
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2022-10): 343
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2022-10): 1153
Task authors in (2022-10): 534
Users who have closed tasks in (2022-10): 297
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2022-10): 330
Tasks created in (2022-10): 3005
Tasks closed in (2022-10): 1952
Open and stalled tasks in total: 51851
* Only open tasks in total: 50963
* Only stalled tasks in total: 888
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 116
Needs Triage: 789
High: 1158
Normal: 1753
Low: 2437
Lowest: 2575
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2022-10): 6
To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Tue 01 Nov 2022 12:00:22 AM UTC)