Bryan and Chris, The multiwiki work is fantastic, a big thank you for pursuing this! I tried to use your new module to provide a vagrant development environment for Fundraising's "payments" wiki [1], and I ran up against a large and very solid-looking wall that I think is worth mentioning. We maintain a special release branch of MediaWiki for payments, with a bit of security hardening. We cannot follow trunk development without carefully reading over the new features, and we need to develop against this target so that we catch version incompatibilities before deployment.
I see that multiwiki encapsulates the various wikis by configuration only, and they all share the main codebase. Do you have multiple checkouts of MediaWiki-core on your roadmap, or are we a fringe case? I'd like to help support our development under vagrant, but this issue is a bit of a blocker. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Adam [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135326, production is https://payments.wikimedia.org On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Richards > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > CentralAuth/Multiwiki: > > Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, and Reedy spent a lot of time hacking on this, > > and we now have support for multiwiki/CentralAuth in Vagrant! There is > > still some cleanup work being done for the role to remove > kludge/hacks/etc > > (see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132691/). > > The CentralAuth role and the associated puppet config that allows > creation of multiple wikis as Apache virtual hosts on a single > MediaWiki-Vagrant virtual machine have been merged! Go forth and > debug/extend CentralAuth. :) > > I'd love to see additional roles created that use the multwiki::wiki > Puppet define to add interesting things for testing/debugging like RTL > wikis or other complex features such as WikiData that use a > collaboration between multiple wikis in the WMF production cluster. > If you're interested in working on something like this and get stuck > with the Puppet code needed or find shortcomings in the setup that > Chris and I developed I'd be glad to try and help work through the > issues. > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
