Add a documentation-only type to foreign-resources.yaml
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	Tgr
	May 1 2023, 3:13 PM

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Following up from T330427: Add a way for skins and extensions to feed into "Installed client-side libraries" on Special:Version and T330508.

There should be a way to include a library in foreign-resources.yaml without it actually doing something. This would be useful for libraries which need a complex build step which ForeignResourceManager doesn't currently support, but we would still want to declare the dependency and show it in Special:Version. An example is d3 in GrowthExperiments.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	foreign-resources.yaml: Add doc-only type	mediawiki/core	master	+40 -22

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T330508: Expand running of ForeignResourceStructureTest against skins and extensions that have foreign-resources.yaml files
T335519: Maintain our own build of Vega
Mentioned Here: T330427: Add a way for skins and extensions to feed into "Installed client-side libraries" on Special:Version
T330508: Expand running of ForeignResourceStructureTest against skins and extensions that have foreign-resources.yaml files

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Tgr created this task.May 1 2023, 3:13 PM

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Tgr mentioned this in T335519: Maintain our own build of Vega.May 1 2023, 3:13 PM

Tgr mentioned this in T330508: Expand running of ForeignResourceStructureTest against skins and extensions that have foreign-resources.yaml files.

sbassett awarded a token.May 1 2023, 3:16 PM

Sounds good to me! This fits well within the roadmap for ForeignResourceManager long-term but isn't likely to be planned by us in the next few quarters. I'm happy to help review/guide anything you need.

Krinkle triaged this task as Low priority.May 1 2023, 7:13 PM

Krinkle added a project: Performance-Team.

Krinkle moved this task from Inbox, needs triage to Backlog: Future Goals, non-prioritized on the Performance-Team board.

Jdforrester-WMF awarded a token.May 1 2023, 7:24 PM

Also useful for extensions which use software that bundles libraries, e.g. VisualEditor uses 15 libraries which are listed in AUTHORS.txt but otherwise invisible.