This is awesome, I've used it as a total MediaWiki noob to poke around at
the internals.  One suggestion I'd have is to include a script that
populates some sample data in the db (pages, users, edits, etc.).  Does
anyone have such a thing, should we dump a particularly active test setup
from somewhere, or would we need to make something new?


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Vagrant is a command-line tool for automatically provisioning virtual
> machines according to scripted specifications. The mediawiki-vagrant
> project bundles together specifications for quickly and easily provisioning
> a virtual machine running MediaWiki, suitable for development work.
>
> I announced it a few months ago, when I had something nominally useful to
> share. Some people found it useful, but it was something I had cobbled
> together in a hacky way as I was learning Vagrant, and I wasn't very happy
> with the end result. In the intervening months, I got a lot of useful
> suggestions, and became more proficient in writing Vagrant and Puppet
> configurations, so I decided to do things over.
>
> There's a lot more work to do (better profiling tools!), but I think it
> works quite well now, so I would appreciate some testing and feedback from
> others.
>
> Installation instructions are available here:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vagrant
>
> I hope you check it out, and that you find it useful. Feedback would be
> much appreciated.
>
> I'd also like to publicly thank Yurik for testing this extensively on
> Windows and providing detailed logs when things broke. Thanks, Yurik!
>
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