Important news regarding future YUI development

Guy Pyrzak guy.pyrzak at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 05:04:17 UTC 2014


Considering how much the landscape has changed I would recommend the
project consider adding jasmine/mocha and karma to enable ui unit tests.
Require.js might also make sense to enable better loading of files.

+1 for bootstrap/foundation + jquery

On Friday, August 29, 2014, Damien <damien.nozay at gmail.com> wrote:

> bootstrap + jquery.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, David Lawrence <dkl at mozilla.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dkl at mozilla.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately it seems Yahoo is taking a different direction and all
>> development work
>> on YUI has stopped effective immediately. They state that only target
>> fixes will be
>> made which I assume just means security fixes if that.
>>
>>
>> http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/96098168666/important-announcement-regarding-yui
>>
>> This obviously has some impact on our future plans to continue using YUI
>> with Bugzilla
>> and our work on migrating to version 3. I suppose we should discuss on
>> what we should
>> do going forward with those plans.
>>
>> Since we are not too far along yet, we could redirect our efforts to
>> something else
>> that is robust and well maintained such as jQuery or others. Or take a
>> different
>> approach and use several different more focused JS libraries depending on
>> what the
>> needs of the function of Bugzilla.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> dkl
>>
>>
>>
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