Because the system knows about it only when it's set as current skin by a hook, requests like the one in the URL field return Vector's styles. Looks like this needs core support.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://bits.wikimedia.org/zh.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=true&lang=zh&modules=site&only=styles&skin=SkinMobile&*
mgrover wrote:
Assigned Mingle ticket https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/mobile/cards/708
mw.config.get( 'skin' ) currently returns vector. Now we are using minerva we should call ourselves minerva.
I was talking to Matt and CentralNotice could do with this to distinguish between skins in deciding which banner to serve.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1191
bingle-admin wrote:
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1419
Change 102866 had a related patch set uploaded by Jdlrobson:
Offer the blue pill or the red pill
Change 102866 merged by jenkins-bot:
Beta Feature: Register mobile skin, offer users the ability to change it
Change 118037 had a related patch set uploaded by Jdlrobson:
Make sure Minerva is registered as a valid skin
After discussing with Ryan, we actually realised we can register it but stop it from being user facing. So that's what's happening!