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Replace OCG in collection extension with Electron
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This captures the subtasks for keeping the Collection extension functioning without OCG

Essentially, the book creator should function as it currently does, except:

  • the pdf rendered is not in LaTeX format
  • plain text output is no longer supported

This also does away with the features:

  • Paper size selector
  • table of contents creation
  • adding custom chapters
  • plain text rendering
  • selecting number of columns (these are discussed on phabricator here)
  • attribution of images used in the article
  • enumeration of all editors that contributed to the individual wiki pages

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 Resolved• JKatzWMFT150871 [EPIC] (Proposal) Replicate core OCG features and sunset OCG service
 ResolvedTheDJT150872 Replace OCG in collection extension with Electron
 DuplicateNoneT150874 Collate wikimedia pages into a single html wikimedia page that can then be rendered into a single pdf
Resolved• JKatzWMFT150875 Confirm attribution needs
 DeclinedNoneT150917 Remove deprecated features from book creator UI
 ResolvedpmiazgaT163272 [Spike] Determine changes necessary for concatenation support
InvalidNoneT167210 [EPIC] Adding PDF TOC with PDF page numbers to electron
 ResolvedSpikephuedxT168004 [Spike 6hrs] Investigate ability of vivliostyle to render single articles
 InvalidSpikeNoneT169738 [Spike 8hrs] Investigate ability of using post-processing approach with new print styles
 Resolved• NirzarT169823 Design changes to desktop print styles
Resolved• NirzarT169826 Add project wordmark to print styles
 DeclinedJdlrobsonT171114 Show important indicators in print styles
 DeclinedNoneT171250 Display categories while printing articles again
 Resolved• NirzarT171330 Justify text in print styles?
 Resolved• NirzarT172144 References take up more space with new print styles than existing print style
 Resolved• NirzarT173767 reduce space taken by TOC in new print styles
 ResolvedovasilevaT179363 Remove tocnumbers from TOC layout in print mode as they display incorrectly with numbers > 10 and their usefulness is debatable
 ResolvedABorbaWMFT172184 QA of new desktop print styles
 ResolvedovasilevaT172414 Add print styles test articles to the beta cluster
 DeclinedNoneT174955 Infobox styling disappears in firefox
 ResolvedABorbaWMFT174957 Infobox breaking toc in new print styles
 ResolvedJdlrobsonT176463 [Spike 8hrs] Investigate libraries for post-processing without non-JS dependencies
 ResolvedovasilevaT168871 Introduct toc with page numbers during pdf post-processing
 InvalidNoneT169757 Improve usability of "download as pdf" page

Event Timeline

• JKatzWMF created this task.Nov 16 2016, 5:15 PM
• JKatzWMF created subtask T150874: Collate wikimedia pages into a single html wikimedia page that can then be rendered into a single pdf .Nov 16 2016, 5:23 PM
Aklapper added projects: Readers-Community-Engagement, Services, OfflineContentGenerator, SRE, Web-Team-Backlog.Nov 16 2016, 5:29 PM
Aklapper added a project: Collection.
Aklapper removed subscribers: Readers-Community-Engagement, Services, OfflineContentGenerator and 2 others.
• jhobs moved this task from Incoming to 2014-15 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Nov 16 2016, 5:45 PM
• JKatzWMF created subtask T150917: Remove deprecated features from book creator UI.Nov 17 2016, 1:07 AM
• Moushira moved this task from ToDo to Doing on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.Dec 13 2016, 2:30 PM
• mobrovac edited projects, added Services (watching); removed Services.Dec 16 2016, 10:01 PM
• Moushira moved this task from Doing to On The Radar on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.Jan 17 2017, 6:27 PM
TheDJ updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 7 2017, 1:09 PM
TheDJ subscribed.

Has anyone considered creating a separate (restbase) endpoint for pdf renderings, that the service can use, which would allow us to retain certain of these features ?

• mobrovac subscribed.Feb 7 2017, 2:54 PM

@TheDJ I believe these are captured in the subtasks. Once we have the complete functionality that we want to retain, the endpoint will be created and made public.

ovasileva added a subtask: T163272: [Spike] Determine changes necessary for concatenation support .Apr 18 2017, 11:25 PM
pmiazga closed subtask T163272: [Spike] Determine changes necessary for concatenation support as Resolved.May 31 2017, 9:45 PM
• Fjalapeno added a subtask: T167210: [EPIC] Adding PDF TOC with PDF page numbers to electron.Jun 7 2017, 4:16 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from 2014-15 Q4 to Tracking on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jun 29 2017, 8:28 PM
Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (Tracking); removed Web-Team-Backlog.
Jdlrobson moved this task from Untriaged to Move to Backlog on the Web-Team-Backlog (Tracking) board.
ovasileva created subtask T169757: Improve usability of "download as pdf" page .Jul 5 2017, 3:22 PM
Tgr added a subtask: T169897: Track print-related web standards.Jul 10 2017, 11:03 AM
Tgr removed Tgr as the assignee of this task.Jul 10 2017, 11:19 AM
Tgr subscribed.

Work on this happened in subtasks:

See also T166188#3325004 and follow-up comments which discuss using headless Chromium instead of Electron.

fgiunchedi triaged this task as High priority.Jul 21 2017, 10:20 AM
Aklapper added a comment.Sep 14 2017, 9:17 AM

As already announced in Tech News, OfflineContentGenerator (OCG) will not be used anymore after October 1st, 2017 on Wikimedia sites. OCG will be replaced by Electron. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

ovasileva closed subtask T169757: Improve usability of "download as pdf" page as Invalid.Sep 14 2017, 11:48 AM
CKoerner_WMF moved this task from On The Radar to Web on the Readers-Community-Engagement board.Oct 2 2017, 5:44 PM
CKoerner_WMF removed a project: Readers-Community-Engagement.
ovasileva closed subtask T167210: [EPIC] Adding PDF TOC with PDF page numbers to electron as Invalid.Apr 9 2018, 2:38 PM
• mobrovac added a project: Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External).Dec 20 2018, 12:02 PM
PFWOz subscribed.Jan 8 2019, 12:56 AM

What happens to this ticket with Electron being phased out in favor of Proton?

Will Collection move to Proton, or stay with unsupported Electron, or support a non-WMF extension like Mpdf, or simply remain in limbo without a built-in PDF renderer? Is this or T184772 the better ticket to follow/comment on for those subjects?

Arlolra mentioned this in T213900: Leaving out 'prefix' option breaks Visual Editor when Collection extension is installed.Jan 17 2019, 10:20 PM
• Phabricator_maintenance moved this task from Backlog to Acknowledged on the SRE board.Jan 26 2019, 8:56 PM
TheDJ closed this task as Resolved.Jan 16 2020, 10:27 AM
TheDJ claimed this task.

OCG was replaced, don't see a need to keep this open.

TheDJ closed subtask T150917: Remove deprecated features from book creator UI as Declined.Jan 16 2020, 10:40 AM
Izno removed a subtask: T169897: Track print-related web standards.Dec 8 2020, 3:42 AM
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