On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> (We are the only two committers to the E3Experiments repository.) > > That's a good and a bad thing as it'll likely mean we're not going to > get a lot of insight into the code review benefits & drawbacks unless > we get a few more people excited to work on that particular extension. > Yup.
> A consequence of having an extension (as opposed to something > standalone like the mobile app or Limn) as the test case would be that > we'll have to figure out how to make it work well with the MW > deployment process - not sure how hard that would be in practice, but > again something you'd have to solve without leaning too much on > others. > >> I'd like to set this up on a third-party host so we don't add to the list of >> machines ops has to worry about, and so we aren't affected by labs upgrades. >> The monetary cost would be trivial and I don't mind shouldering it myself. > > I'm not terribly fond of that idea as it sounds like a truly > dead-ended approach; it'd be nice to have something that can > potentially grow in number of users / maintainers, and can be more > straightforwardly prepared for deployment on production servers. Labs > upgrades will happen, yes, but we have to grow discipline in > minimizing downtime by eating our own dogfood. > Agree w Erik. Really doesn't prove much in terms of integration towards deployment or collaboration for our community. >> ….and we're up: http://phab.256.io/ > > But I'll grant you that it's the fastest thing to do. :) I'd be in > favor of moving it to a Labs instance when possible. > +1 -Alolita > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
