Thread:Extension talk:MobileFrontend/Issues with MobileFrontend and possible rewrite/reply (3)

Is this an either/or question? If John is excited about a rewrite, why not have a go at it and then gradually make similar changes to the mainline code to the extent that the other devs agree they make sense? Replacing an extension in bulk is not really less scary than continuously refactoring/deploying an existing one, AFAICT. But I can see the lure of starting with more of a green field, so if that's what John wants to do, then obviously he should do it.

I agree that it would be preferable to rename the rewrite for now to avoid confusion (the current name suggests that it's the versioning of the MobileFrontend extension).