Typos etc.

My try to start from scratch ended wih: https://tools.wmflabs.org/purodha-testing/core/index.php?title=Haupsigg

I cannot find out how to get skins. (After spending ~4 hours searching)

All links to download something static are not for me™ :-) What I need are instructions on how to clone the common skins as a git repository. I was not even able to find where they are. I understand that once I have a git repository of skins, I can link (or even copy) them to the skins directory local to my test installation of MediaWiki and proceed with them. See also Thread:Support/ About MediaWiki:Default-skin-not-found/en and MediaWiki:Default-skin-not-found-no-skins/en

Apparently they want you to use composer: mw:Download_from_Git#Fetch_external_libraries

But you can also download all skins separately: mw:Download from Git#Using Git to download MediaWiki skins

No. That is not what I want to use. I want to use git, as I wrote.

With some luck, and by trial and error, I found git clone ssh://purodha@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/skins.git which now brought me an apparently all emply repository which also did not help.

I am a bit further as it seems, I can get core, all extensions and all skins via git.

Only git review refuses to work from individual extension or skin directories:

     ~/extensiions/Translate > git review
     Enter passphrase for key '/home/.../.ssh/id_rsa':
     Problems encountered installing commit-msg hook
     /home/.../extensions/Translate/.git/hooks/commit-msg: Not a directory
     protocol error: expected control record
     ~/extensiions/Translate >

It also does not work from the extensions directory itself:

     ~/extensiions > git review
     Enter passphrase for key '/home/.../.ssh/id_rsa':
     remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done
     To ssh://purodha@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core.git
      ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> refs/for/master/master (no new changes)
     error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://purodha@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core.git'
     ~/extensiions >

So again, nothing I can do. Btw. although there are lots of wiki pages that should describe all this, some say different things, nothing working for me.

Another problem: Some of my hint here could to to bugzilla, and they were there already had not bugzilla been discontinued. Yet phabricator lets me login, then tells me that is was sending me an e-mail to a wrong address → dead end.

Are you still working from tools? What instructions did you follow?

Maybe it's just a typo: you are in ~/extensiions/Translate but git review was looking for extensions/Translate/.git/ . I think mw:Gerrit/Tutorial#Configure_Git is supposed to help, too.

Too many instructions. I simply cannot remember them. There are many pages on git, gerrit, installing and downloading mediawiki, and so on in various wikis. Assume that I read them all.

The double i is just an issue coming from copying stuff here to this page. I reality, there are several directory names on several hosts (among them tools lab). I trashed directories when they were not working, always attempting as clean a start as possible.

mw:Gerrit/Tutorial is one of the many pages that I read. It has a bunch of errors and inconsistencies. What do I do with the issues that I found? Write them on the talk page?