On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:11 PM Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:05 PM Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Wait, are you saying that WMF uses MediaWiki-Vagrant to run the > > Wikipedias > > > etc? I thought they was not correct. > > > > No, MediaWiki-Vagrant is not used for Wikimedia's production hosting > > environment. It is however the only semi-official and semi-maintained > > (its a long story) shared development environment. I have worked for > > the Wikimedia Foundation for a bit over 5 years and have used > > MediaWiki-Vagrant as part of my development workflow for that entire > > time. We do not track statistics on MediaWiki-Vagrant usage among > > Foundation engineering teams, but I can anecdotally say that a number > > of teams either currently or in the recent past have used > > MediaWiki-Vagrant as their standard development environment as well. > > It has roles for setting up fairly exotic systems such as CentralAuth > > complete with a dedicated loginwiki or Flow with external storage. > > > > MediaWiki-Vagrant uses a lot of custom Puppet code to provide a system > > that can reliably and repeatedly provision a wikifarm within a virtual > > machine (or LXC container) that comes about as close as one is > > reasonably able to running the same software with similar > > configuration to the actively maintained parts of the Wikimedia > > production environment. > > Very tempting.... Maybe I should pursue both options in parallel, and > install vagrant on my host machine. If I want more real-time help in > setting this up, would #wikimedia-dev be the right channel to ask questions > in?
There are usually folks in both #wikimedia-dev and #wikimedia-tech on Freenode that can help with general MediaWiki-Vagrant questions. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
