On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
... When debug mode is off:
* Modules are requested in batches * Resources are combined into modules * Modules are combined into a response * The response is minified
When debug mode is on:
* Modules are requested individually * Resources are combined into modules
There are two features here. modules optimising traffic
It seems everyone realises that the serving of raw files has to remain.
Why is this old and remaining functionality going to be named 'debug mode'?
Why not give the new feature a name, put it in the prefs, and turn that pref on by default after sufficient road testing. As happened with the new skin.
There are going to be mediawiki implementers and wikimedia users who want to disable this feature for reasons other than debugging.
(I've always considered the 'Misc' section of the prefs to be 'Performance')
-- John Vandenberg