Status

Jons patch has been merged (now possible to ship `templates` from backend to frontend as raw html)
- Next step - vanilla mustache patch
OOUI - mostly writting tests

Discussion

Librarify

Pros:

Easier to move libraries in and out of core.
Helps chisel away at complexity and distill MediaWiki to essentials.
Allow for greater local autonomy.

Javascript package management for mediawiki/core.git

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T807

Should we or should we not have package management for javascript?

Pros:

Auto-upgrade minor versions (if we want to).
Makes the correct way to contribute to external libraries more discoverable.

Cons:

Upstream packages have no clear agreement on which package manager to use (we'd have to maintain a far number of ports no matter which we use).
Contrary to PHP land, there is no autoloader. We have to register them manually into ResourceLoader file-by-file and be very careful to detect changes in versions and update our module declaration (can't be automated since bower has no concept of separate modules, languageScripts, css files etc.)
Except for very few, our kind of modules tend to not be exported but use global scope. That's how the web is at the moment. No amd/require/CommonJS. Using a package manager doesn't change that.

Prerequisites:

Librarify our front-end modules.
JS community settled on bower vs. npm.
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5239
- https://github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com/issues/161
Our modules embracing amd/CommonJS exports (as opposed to global scope).

Next steps: Bd808 will involve the front end standards group in review of the PHP library extraction and re-introduction processes with a goal of developing a unified standard that is agreeable for both lanaguages.

Parking lot

What's the status of the icon library / icon work?

RL module hasn't changed much since the last meeting
Clear idea of where its going
Implemenation will take a week
- Either Trevor or Bartosz (likley both)
Trevor has been working with May and Monte to get the font export into SVG files
- Made sure they were sane, organized, etc
- Now passed off to May

https://www.npmjs.org/enterprise#scoped

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