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Sam Smith 64bd4601b4 featureManager: Add typehints
I735fd640 bumped the required MediaWiki version to 1.31. That version
dropped support for PHP 5.x.

Wherever possible, update FeatureManager's methods to use PHP 7.0.x's
scalar and return type declarations.

Bug: T244481
Change-Id: Ib5636d0ec5ec7f0c93b5b3317a12635668b589e2
2020-03-09 11:05:21 +00:00
Sam Smith 3f95820467 featureManager: Set -> Requirement
As was noted in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244481#5859513, the
term "set" doesn't seem natural. Piotr Miazga (polishdeveloper, pmiazga)
and Nicholas Ray (nray) suggested a number of good replacements,
including "requirement." Serendipitously, this term is already used in
FeatureManager's documentation.

Bug: T244481
Change-Id: I559c2d4149db69235cdd4bb880697deb1a145743
2020-03-06 17:23:46 +00:00
Sam Smith 9177c22365 features: Add minimalist feature manager
With complex additions to Vector's codebase like the Desktop Improvement
Program upcoming, it's important that we have a shared, intuitive
language to talk about features and their requirements. Centralising
the registration of features and creating an API satisfies does exactly
this.

This change introduces a greatly-reduced version of Piotr Miazga's
(polishdeveloper, pmiazga) original proposed API and associated
scaffolding classes for feature management in Vector, which itself was
based upon his work in MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue. This is done to
establish a foundation upon which we can build the more sophisticated
parts of Piotr's proposal in a piecemeal basis, thereby minimising risk.

Distinct from Piotr's proposed API is the ability to register sets and
features that are always enabled or disabled.

Additionally:

- A Vector.FeatureManager service is registered but not used

- A list of proposed immediate next steps is included

Bug: T244481
Change-Id: Ie53c41d479eaf15559d5bb00f269774760360bde
2020-02-26 11:49:29 +00:00