Someone who understands our PDF stack should update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ElectronPdfService
According to T161312#5345543, "Electron is being (has been, for the most part) undeployed; ElectronPdfRenderer now links to Proton." however that page does not mention Proton at all, and there is probably more to review, e.g. "Installation" section mentions "Electron Service".
Right, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers lists "WMDE Engineering" for ElectronPDFService.
However, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ElectronPdfService links to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Tables_in_PDFs#Development_and_deployment_roadmap which states that "The WMF Reading team took over the responsibility for the long term maintenance and planning of PDF rendering."
@JTannerWMF can I leave this one with you to work out who's responsibility this patch lies with? This has become a little confusing as a while back we were asked to help out but I'm not sure if just because we touched it last we are now the maintainers. Olga and Sam would be able to give more details.
Could someone who understands this area please confirm/correct my understanding, so it could become possible to clean up abandoned confusing documentation (in theory)? Thanks in advance.
@Aklapper - that's correct. The extension is still called ElectronPdfService, but it currently uses the Proton rendering service (the Electron rendering service is now sunset). PDF rendering, I believe this is currently supported by the Product Infrastructure team. @sdkim - can you confirm?). I think the easiest way to fix this would be to change the links to the Electron Service to the Proton service within https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ElectronPdfService.
Hi @Aklapper, I am confirming that Product Infrastructure will update documentation and moving this to our backlog
For the anniversary I made some clueless edits in https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:ElectronPdfService&type=revision&diff=4445341&oldid=4196395 . The "Installation" section would welcome your review / corrections (install Proton and Restbase?). TIA.
Why has this task been closed when the page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ElectronPdfService still clearly says at the top:
The information on this page is partially outdated, as the Electron service has been superseded by the Proton service. See phab:T247310.
Should the notice on the page be removed? Or does the page still need updating?
In my opinion, the page still needs more work because there is little documentation (either on that page, or linked from it) on how to set up Proton in a production environment.
@AndrewDBate: Thanks, updated / removed. (Proton docs are out of scope for the ElectronPdfService extension page.)