[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

2015-03-03 Thread Bryan Davis
We have working support for installing MediaWiki-Vagrant in an LXC container now! See the instructions in support/README-lxc.md [0] for a description of how to use it from a Ubuntu 14.04 host computer. Patches are welcome giving alternate instructions for other distributions. Note that Vagrant

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

2015-03-03 Thread Nikolas Everett
I've just tried it and it seems to be working well! I heard that some OSX users were seeing huge huge performance problems with vagrant. Something about having to run it inside a vm. I imagine running lxc inside a vm is much less painful than running virtualbox On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:24

Re: [Wikitech-l] TimedMediaHandler ogv.js patch status check

2015-03-03 Thread Brion Vibber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've done an update pass on the patch to TimedMediaHandler adding my ogv.js JavaScript Ogg Theora/Vorbis playback engine for IE 10/11 and Safari 6.1+ users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63823 It now comes in

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

2015-03-03 Thread Bryan Davis
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Awesome! Is it possible to use a Linux VM as the actual LXC container on a Mac or Windows host system, as with Vagrant's Docker provider? This could allow consolidating multiple Vagrant instances on one VM, or sharing

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

2015-03-03 Thread Brion Vibber
Awesome! Is it possible to use a Linux VM as the actual LXC container on a Mac or Windows host system, as with Vagrant's Docker provider? This could allow consolidating multiple Vagrant instances on one VM, or sharing a VM between Vagrant and a Linux GUI used for testing or specialty apps.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

2015-03-03 Thread Dan Duvall
Thanks a ton, Bryan! I know many users have been concerned with the hefty memory requirements (not to mention VT-x requirements) of MW-Vagrant+VirtualBox, especially on lower end hardware. This should be a huge help. Labs users can definitely look to benefit from this feature as well (once the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Hack - An Evolution of PHP: March 4th

2015-03-03 Thread Rachel Farrand
Reminder that this tech talk is tomorrow. Hope you can join! On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Hack: An Evolution of PHP *Presenter:* Josh Watzman from Facebook *Date:* March 4th *Time:*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moses decoder

2015-03-03 Thread Magnus Manske
Could we plug this into https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc ? On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:09 AM Kartik Mistry kartik.mis...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Bahodir Mansurov bmansu...@wikimedia.org wrote: I’ve been learning how to use Moses decoder [1] for creating machine

[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Starling
In the next RFC meeting we will discuss the following RFCs: * AuthManager https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/AuthManager * Allow ContentHandler to expose structured data to the search engine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89733 The second one is not a proper RFC page on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-01

2015-03-03 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 11:47 -0800, Gergo Tisza wrote: It could be more interesting, although probably on the team level rather than globally, is the number of open tasks for a given priority. If, for example, the number of tasks with normal priority is growing continuously, that does signal

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Upcoming GSoC and Outreachy rounds

2015-03-03 Thread Niharika Kohli
Hello! I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia has been selected as a mentoring organization for the upcoming Google Summer of Code (out of only 137 organizations selected for this round) and Outreachy rounds. Congratulations! We have a phabricator board for possible projects[1] students can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transfering domain cswp.cz to WMF

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Wolff
On Feb 28, 2015 10:21 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think Wikimedia is currently looking at maintaining a url shortening service. However, a redirect domain (distinguished by whether or not the target url can be trivially derived from the request url) seems much more