https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54042
--- Comment #2 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > What other parts are tricky? The request to event.gif is generated in the user's browser, which is running in the host environment, not the guest. So if you want the VM to handle events, you need to forward another port. We don't have a great mechanism in place for conditionally forwarding a port on the basis of role activation, so there's that. Role activation happens in Ruby code on the guest, so you could ostensibly have roles that go beyond Puppet manifest manipulation and actually modify the VirtualBox / Vagrant container it executes in. I'm not sure this is the best use-case for it, but it is something that I'd be happy to see implemented. There are two other things to consider. One is that it's a totally viable option for Wikimedia folks to simply set $wgEventLoggingBaseUri to the Labs endpoint (//bits.beta.wmflabs.org/event.gif) or even production (//bits.wikimedia.org/event.gif). Events generated on your dev instance will be logged, and they'll be marked as hailing from 'devwiki' (or whatever you set your wiki $wgDBname to). Finally, remember that all that the production beacon endpoints do is log the request. There's no reason why that couldn't be done by MediaWiki -- say, in an API module. This is exactly how the old ClickTracking extension that EventLogging replaced was implemented. We had to move away from that because the application servers are slow and expect the caches to protect them from the brunt of production traffic, whereas events are unique and thus cache-busting. But what's true of Wikimedia's production environment isn't true for your dev wiki or for lots of other small- to mid-sized production wikis that could handle event pings perfectly well. Implementing this would not only obviate the need to open an additional port but also make EventLogging useful to third-parties. There's a long-standing bug for this, bug 43601. I put some notes and code there. It should be straightforward to do, I just haven't gotten around to it. If one of you guys wants to do it: <3. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
