Frontend standards group/2014-10-09-Weekly

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= Agenda =

Updates

 * Telugu Wikipedia and the Local media.pdfmentors report on active projects

Trevor: Skin refactor

 * OOUI theme is delegated to Prateek
 * OOUI PHP delegated to Bartosz
 * Trevor is now on skin refactor
 * Has met with Lego
 * And diving into the mess that is MediaWiki PHP
 * Planning stage and Trevor will update RFC

Jon: Icons and templates

 * Waiting on Bartosz and Monte
 * Trevor would really like to see a core patch for Jons template work
 * Blocked on Brion talking with arch team

Bartosz: OOjs UI PHP implementation

 * Fixed some typos and syntax errors
 * Just starting to work on remaining parts
 * Will have more to share after the weekend
 * Trevor handed it off with buttons and elements working
 * Needs another week or so to demonstrate it
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OOUIPHP

Prateek: MediaWiki theme for OOjs UI

 * Refining the existing theme
 * Increased amount of alighment between style guide and OOjs UI

Discussion

 * Generated icons for MediaWiki core
 * Revisit dynamic RL vs build-process
 * Extension API vs than central repository
 * Performance concens
 * Get numbers on how slow imagemagick convert is
 * Need an icon module to be able to be generated in <= 2
 * Generator is in good shape to adapt to core
 * Need to add support for more flexible of CSS output
 * OOjs UI template integration
 * Where are we at with choosing a language?
 * Has not been discussed at arch meeting
 * Instead of waiting for arch comittee Jon's patch for RL templates will help to move this forward
 * Extend ResourceLoaderFileModule

Action

 * Jon to prepare patch for core for RL templates, using html as the markup language
 * Trevor to prototype RL based icon generation infrastructure