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Epic: Retire the MobileApp extension
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The MobileApp extension currently does very little: it contains some .less files from which the apps generate bundled stylesheets, and a JSON config file that the apps use to publish remote config settings. The .less files are likely soon to be consolidated with the rest of the mobile styles in MobileFrontend, and the JSON config file could easily be moved over as well.

Is it time to retire the MobileApp extension? Does it have any other consumers besides the WMF Wikipedia apps? What would it take to make this happen?

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 InvalidJdlrobsonT138340 Epic: Retire the MobileApp extension
 InvalidNoneT137992 Epic: Consolidate mobile styling code

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• Mholloway created this task.Jun 21 2016, 7:16 PM
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• Mholloway added a subtask: T137992: Epic: Consolidate mobile styling code.Jun 21 2016, 7:17 PM
• Mholloway updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 21 2016, 7:22 PM
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Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Tracking on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.Jun 22 2016, 7:36 PM
Legoktm added a parent task: T106123: Extensions needing to be removed from Wikimedia wikis.Jun 29 2016, 12:01 AM
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The extension is used to add the "mobile app edit" tag to edits and uploads done via the Wikipedia App and Commons App (since last week).

What alternative is available if the extension is to retire?

• Mholloway closed this task as Invalid.Jul 26 2016, 1:13 PM

This is premature. There's functionality (like generating the "mobile app edit" designation) and code that doesn't belong anywhere else in MediaWiki. The parent task arose out of a discussion in Reading engineering about how to better coordinate changes to CSS code. Consolidating in MobileFrontend was one possibility, but it's been rejected. That being the case, MobileApp will need to be around for the foreseeable future.

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• Mholloway closed subtask T137992: Epic: Consolidate mobile styling code as Invalid.Jul 26 2016, 1:16 PM
• Mholloway removed a parent task: T106123: Extensions needing to be removed from Wikimedia wikis.
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