Hey all, the Timeless grant has wrapped up and I've submitted the final report for the project. Please check it out if you're interested: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Timeless/Post-deployment_supp...
A couple of things to highlight: * The associated learning pattern is likely going to be relevant to a lot of us: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Developing_intercompatible... * Part of the purpose of the grant was to investigate into what we would actually need from a new skin on Wikimedia projects, should anyone decide to go that route. Here's what we found:
All we really need from a new skin is for everything that went wrong with Minerva and Timeless, as far as readers and editors are concerned, to not happen this time:
- We need gadgets to work.
- We need content to display properly, and tools to be available.
- We need to properly reuse core interfaces so things remain consistent.
- We need to not distract users with unnecessary colours and affordances that aren't relevant to whatever they're doing, and provide options that suit their differing situations and needs.
- We need to not do dumb things, like reinvent random wheels or ignore standard hooks and DOM expectations.
I don't know if that's all that likely to help anyone, but... yeah.
Anyway, I'll still be working on maintenance and some feature development in a volunteer capacity, mind you, so as always if you run into issues or whatever, please file them on phabricator or come yell at me! I just make absolutely no promises whatsoever as to when I (or whoever) will actually deal with it, but it's still really helpful to at least have them tracked.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/timeless/ (See, it's even sort of organised! I even renamed the 'Aaaaaaa' column!)
-I