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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.19, Resource Loader, Gadgets, and User Scripts
From:       Rob Lanphier <robla () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2012-01-25 6:35:07
Message-ID: CAPzpXh7dUGZTiy_PR9F5GQ7W8z6sP+akPw41DZ7DP7=n=aECmA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger
<mhershberger@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Let's ensure that the Wiki* experience is consistent.  We can avoid some
> of the mistakes like those that happened when we introduced
> ResourceLoader.  Backwards compatibility is important.  If we upgrade
> MediaWiki and we know that people are going to complain because a
> widespread dependency (like mw.util) disappeared, let's eliminate that
> "experience gap".

Thanks for posting this to the list.  I've highlighted above the most
important part of what you wrote -- we will not introduce known
incompatibilities and count on our ability to clean these things up
after the fact unless that's the only way to do it.  My understanding
is we have far better options in this case, and we'll have more than
enough work on our hands cleaning up after unknown incompatibilities.

A couple of relevant bugs:
Bug 33711 - mw.util.$content is undefined in MediaWiki:Common.js
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33711

Bug 33746 - Resource Loader should pre-depend on mw.util
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33746

Roan should be weighing in on these soon.  My understanding is that he
plans to add the necessary dependency to make this work.

Rob

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