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10/9/13 preparing for ve on mobile Attending: Kenan, Tomasz, Rob M, Juliusz, Arthur


How to structure spikes on VE for mobile?

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  • section-level editing
  • ux-related issues on tablets

From rob's perspective, main challenges:

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  • addressing dependencies on VE/MW core libraries; will likely need to abstract things out
    • 'targets' for using VE in different environments (eg for Flow)
      • Example: MobileFrontend does not currently have mwuser, will we need to enable this? RL limitations/dependencies
      • Need to create MobileFrontend-specific target
      • Needs refactoring
    • what does it all entail? unclear at the moment

Questions that need to be answered (in rough priority order):

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  • what dependencies are there right now? (eg might be more than mw.user)
    • how do we work around the dependencies now?
    • do dependencies have to be loaded on every page view or dynamically?
    • Are we going to support section-level editing? sanity check with parsoid team (product q, discuss with parsoid team)
      • Are we sure that section editing on tablets is the only answer (how about full page editing w/ section toggling)?
  • performance impacts of loading all these modules, what impact is this going to have on mobile pageviews, etc?
    • what can we trim out to improve performance? (eg can we strip out rangy?)
    • does VE load too slowly (too many dependencies) on tablets or work too slowly (UI too slow)?
  • Minerva/SkinMobile
    • can we eliminate a need for fragmenting the cache?
    • Minerva's UI, especially left nav with all the desktop menu options
  • UX on tablets
  • intermittent connectivity - error handling
  • Product: Subsection editing/viewing on tablets
  • Product: Wikitext editing on Tablets
  • Product: Anonymous editing
    • not necessarily an urgent question that needs answering, but will be helpful in guiding how we architect this


Actions

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  • Juliusz/Rob going to carve out time for Juliusz to do engineering onboarding for Rob (to go over our architecture, infrastructure, code base, alpha/beta, etc)
  • Rob to speak with parsoid team in regards to requirements ND PROCESS / Timeline
  • Kenan needs to answer product quetsions wrt subsection editing, UX, and wikitext editing
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