Gabriel and Wikimedia developers, In what ways might you be anticipating developments with SemanticMediaWiki, and in what ways not?
Scott On Jan 28, 2015 9:52 AM, "Gabriel Wicke" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Another possibility is to shell out to nodejs-based services as an > > alternative to running them as ongoing web services. > > > > I have a hard time imagining a situation where you can install node and > everything else, but would not just apt-get install parsoid > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Setup> or mathoid. VMs that can > run > MediaWiki with all bells & whistles start at around $3 per month > <http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-classic.xml> these days, and are likely to > become even cheaper. > > I believe we can make installing a fully-featured MediaWiki service system > as simple as copy&pasting 2-3 lines to a shell, or even executing a remote > installer script that runs those lines for you. Additionally, we can offer > VM images derived from the same install process through Bitnami or others. > > To make this happen, we need to evaluate the options, make a decision and > then follow through by making this our recommended and supported > installation mechanism & providing a solid upgrade path for existing > content. > > I created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87774 as a high-level > tracking > bug for the task of evaluating and deciding on a distribution strategy > targeted at VMs. > > Gabriel > _______________________________________________ > 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
