On 24 October 2013 18:12, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
VE has special issues since they want it to be usable
as a stand-alone
editor, but they are making progress in factoring out oojs-ui (a new UI
library) from ve.ui
(
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/#/c/88896/<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org…)/>).
I think they are interesting in making mediawiki.ui a custom layer on top
of the more general oojs-ui library (kind of like you can have jquery ui
themes. but probably with significant differences in the details).
Yeah, we're very keen on our work being useful for other teams. An mw.ui
layer on top of oojs-ui is very much an objective, and the ability to
theme/skin/etc. that (so that Agora/whatever changes can be applied
system-wide in one go). The commit above should get merged in the next day
or so; the next step is to move it into MW core, as part of the Great
VisualEditor Repo Split of 2013. :-)
This part is probably the most up in the air, and
would be good to discuss
at the architecture summit, among other places.
Well, hopefully we'll have made some actual implementation progress by
January, but yes, very much a worthwhile thing to discuss there. I suppose
we'll need to go away and write up an RfC, once we actually know what the
proposal is having tried some things out in practice.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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