Bryan, I think I need to take you up on the offer to help. I can do the coding, but I need some borrowed insight to get started. I don't think the wikimania_scholarships model is a good one to follow, I'd much rather add configurability to the mediawiki::wiki or multiwiki::wiki classes. Unfortunately, I see a lot of cascading changes being necessary, which makes me think I'm on the wrong track.
-Adam On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Adam, > > I wanted to avoid the complexity of a full multi version setup if we > could, but if there are more than a couple of roles that would benefit from > such features it would be possible. The easiest thing for your payment wiki > may be to follow the pattern of the wikimania_scholarships role and add > your own apache vhost and git checkout management. I'd be glad to help you > work on this if you'd like some assistance. We might be able to add a bit > more configurability to some of the existing puppet classes and defines to > make working with multiple checkouts of mw-core easier. > > Bryan > > On Friday, June 13, 2014, Adam Wight <awi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> 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 <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Richards >> > <aricha...@wikimedia.org> 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 <bd...@wikimedia.org> >> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA >> > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
