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Deprecate and remove skin autodiscovery (autoloading) mechanism
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Per the recent wikitech-l discussion (starting at [1], mostly concluding at [2]) let's deprecate and then remove skin autodiscovery (autoloading) mechanism.

Filing this bug to make it easier to track progress, as it seems to me that the task should be split in several commits.

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076591.html
[2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076671.html

Version: 1.24rc
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66440

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bz65748

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:22 AM
• bzimport added projects: MW-1.25-release, MediaWiki-User-Interface.
• bzimport set Reference to bz65748.
matmarex created this task.May 25 2014, 9:15 PM
gerritbot added a comment.May 25 2014, 11:07 PM

Change 135383 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Don't use autodiscovery for core skins

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135383

gerritbot added a comment.May 25 2014, 11:07 PM

Change 135384 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Move core skins to separate directories

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135384

gerritbot added a comment.May 26 2014, 2:25 PM

Change 135429 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135429

gerritbot added a comment.May 26 2014, 2:25 PM

Change 135427 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135427

gerritbot added a comment.May 26 2014, 3:44 PM

Change 135429 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135429

gerritbot added a comment.May 26 2014, 3:44 PM

Change 135439 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
[DO NOT MERGE] Completely remove skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135439

gerritbot added a comment.May 28 2014, 9:02 PM

Change 135384 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Move core skins to separate directories

Reason:
Squashed into https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135383/

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135384

gerritbot added a comment.May 29 2014, 5:09 PM

Change 135427 merged by jenkins-bot:
Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135427

gerritbot added a comment.Jun 10 2014, 2:54 AM

Change 135383 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't use autodiscovery for core skins, move them to separate directories

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135383

gerritbot added a comment.Jun 10 2014, 2:58 AM

Change 135429 merged by jenkins-bot:
Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135429

matmarex added a comment.Jun 20 2014, 6:05 PM

Status update:

matmarex added a comment.Jul 21 2014, 6:07 PM

All done other than actually removing skin autodiscovery, which is waiting for 1.24 to be branched (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135439).

Nemo_bis added a comment.Aug 8 2014, 11:16 PM

We need the 1.25 milestone!

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 20 2014, 2:21 AM

Change 135439 merged by jenkins-bot:
Completely remove skin autodiscovery

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135439

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