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_sup…
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_intercompatibl…
* 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