Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes from Wednesday's mobile triage

For this week's triage, I worked with Tomasz Finc and Patrick Reilly to focus on the new MobileFrontend extension.  I also held it a few hours earlier and, as a result had participation from developers farther east. Tomasz was especially interested in getting participation from non-WMF developers and as an incentive, he went through the bugs and tagged the easy ones that would be a good starting point for developers interested in starting work on the MobileFrontend.  You can see the complete list of bugs in this week's etherpad here: http://hexm.de/5x https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/24359 Adding an "e-mail to friends" link    to MobileFrontend    Bryan suggested this one was similar to requests that had been made    on the main site in the past and I initially closed as such -- a    duplicate of "mail this article to someone feature" like Bug #227.    Both Tomasz and MzMcBride objected, though, and re-opened the bug.    Part of Brion's concern for WONTFIXing 227 was that it "opens extra    spamming opportunities" which I'm concerned with as well.  I updated    the bug with some steps we should take to minimize spamming    concerns. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/22659 Give projects the opportunity to    add mobile specific JS/CSS    Amir showed up to ask about device-specific CSS and making them    available to wiki admins (e.g. Mediawiki:Android.css).  Patrick said    that right now their were only two hard-coded CSS style-sheets    (.../iphone.css and .../android.css).  I updated the bug with the    requested information. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30118 Custom project icon in    MobileFrontend extension    John Du Hart saw this bug in the list and volunteered to take it    on.  As of Thursday night, it looks like he has gotten pretty far    along if not complete. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28515 - Dynamic fonts support in mobile    gateway    Amir raised the issue of webfonts for mobile.  He also pointed out    that many mobile devices don't support web fonts at all.  While    Santosh has done a lot of work on the webfonts extension, this    doesn't help.  Amir speculated that the the webfonts extension could    render images of the page with the proper fonts and send the images    to the phone.  We'll need to work on with Santosh on this. After this we got people testing the Mobile frontend bugs that had already been entered.  Tomasz and and Patrick used the opportunity to have people with different handhelds test the bugs.  It is my impression that there is a bit more variety with mobile devices right now then there is with desktops, so this was a great opportunity to test the new mobile site on a variety of devices and confirm problems or fixes. After passing around the OptIn link (http://tinyurl.com/woptin) Tomasz asked people to check out the following bugs: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28181 - Request for Kindle to be    redirected to the mobile site    This was one that we didn't get to test, but I'll be sure to request    that Kindle owners (and users of other mobile devices) show up for    our next mobile triage.  We'll need you! http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30293 - "View this page on regular    Wikipedia" disables mobile redirect    While testing this bug, we didn't see it and closed the bug.    However, I discovered https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30458 "mobile    link to view images site is flaky" and got someone else to confirm    it. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30356 - New gateway has broken layout for    opera mini    After some testing -- Thanks, Niklas! -- This looked like an    intermittent problem since we couldn't reproduce it. We hope to do one of these mobile triages every month and, for future ones it would be awesome if we could have Kindles, iPads, and maybe even Nooks a well as Blackberries, Androids, iPhones and even Nokia phones. Thanks for all the help this time! Mark.