We *might* get a secondary mentor from the WMF Design team to support the
UI work and also the possibilities of CSS customization options that
MediaWiki admins might be interested about. We miss a developer familiar
with MediaWiki extension developer. I'm not an expert, but this extension
looks relatively simple in terms of backend? It is an interface to
manipulate MediaWiki:Common.css.
I actually think (imho) it would be better implemented as a separate
resource loader module rather then piggy backing on
MediaWiki:Common.css. Otherwise it will get bogged down with trying to
parse Common.css to figure out what the current settings are. If its a
separate RL module, then the customizations are entirely separate of
any junk users added to Common.css (Including syntax errors which I'm
sure are common on wikis where the admins don't know css, which is the
target audience). The downside of course is users can't as easily
"see" the generated css to "learn" how it works under the hood, or
make simple modifications to generated css.
Ideas for related bugs that can be assigned to Ioannis
as microtasks are
also welcome. Just name existing bug reports requiring skills relevant to
this project.
Something resource loader related perhaps. Maybe 34339, although
that's more backend.