On 12-02-01 5:11 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 02/01/2012 07:42 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
I haven't been able to release the skinning tutorial I've been working on, but I have a new recommended file layout for non-core skins.
Daniel, please just put up what you have now somewhere, if you can. It's just not scalable or sustainable for you to be a bottleneck here as practically the only person who knows the skins system. Even an unfinished tutorial is better than nothing.
I've always had very little spare time to code or do anything substantial, especially with writing. And my employer wanted to get a little publicity out so we could get more clients who wanted us to do MediaWiki Skinning work (Really, being stuck in WordPress is HELL). So I decided to convince my employer to let me spend work hours writing the skinning tutorial and publish it first on a new company blog before putting an editable derivative up in the manual. And unfortunately we've been too busy and chaotic (I got sick) to move on with it. So unfinished or finished I can't hand it out without an ok since I don't have the implicit copyright given I used work hours (and I used what added up to at least a weeks worth of work) to write it.
I sent a message to Greg on the topic. Though he's been busy lately and one of our clients with an upcoming Oprah appearance has been hammering him with calls, even off-hours.
Also, are you already working with Owen Davis & the Wikia folks regarding their skin rewrite proposal?
No one sent me any information about that -- In fact this might be the first I've even heard of it. Though I'd love to see their ideas.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]