2010/5/18 Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net>et>:
The problem here is Wikimedia sites. If you leave the
debug mode off
and serve fully minified scripts on WMF sites, the hundreds if not
thousands of people who develop user/site scripts for them will have a
very hard time debugging anything that involves interactions with the
minified code. If you turn debug mode on permanently, you lose most of
the benefit of having a minifier to begin with (Wikimedia being the
single biggest user of MediaWiki).
I have recently configured
test.wikipedia.org to pull all of its
JS/CSS locally rather than from
bits.wikimedia.org (for better
isolation) and serve all UsabilityInitiative JS/CSS in raw, multi-file
format (rather than combined and minified, which we use on 'real'
wikis); all of this is to aid testing. The script loader could also be
configured to serve its JS minified on normal wikis and unminified on
testwiki.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)