Hi all! I'm the main developer of the ProveIt gadget
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ProveIt>, a reference
manager for Wikipedia. The code is tracked via Phabricator, reviewed via
Gerrit, and served to the various Wikipedias from Commons. Each wiki has a
unique initialization code
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js> that sets some
local config and then requests the main code from Commons (JavaScript, CSS
and JSON). Every time I merge a new change via Gerrit, I need to manually
update the Commons pages so that the Wikipedias have the latest code.
This is sub-optimal. Ideally, the Wikipedias should request the code
directly from Diffusion, so that when developers merge new changes, they
are immediately available (and we don't need interface rights or manual
work in Commons). However, when I go to the Diffusion of the gadget
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1884/>, click on the main
proveit.js file, and click on "View Raw File", I get to a URL like the
following:
https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/iapd7kogqo5x2naywwlq/PHID-FILE-dk…
The URL of the raw file changes with every click and doesn't have the
proper MIME type header, so it's useless for serving the code.
I think it would be very useful, for my case and others, to have a stable
URL that serves the latest code with the proper MIME type heading. In other
words, a CDN, which may or may not be integrated with Diffusion.
Thanks!