Hello, With the preamble of my opinion not being an authoritative point of view at all, I should point out that Java/JVM based services are not especially loved in WMF. Ops does not feel it has the capability of supporting them. There are a few around like Gerrit, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Kafka but none of these is actually maintained by ops. All of these have owners/maintainers outside of ops (entire teams in some cases), with varying degrees of success. The question of whether it should be Tomcat or Jetty, is a valid one, but serves to alleviate only part of the problem (it's not like Ops hate tomcat but like Jetty). So, there are probably a few social/administrative issues that it might make sense to address first before handling the technical part.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Adam Wight <awi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Friends, > > I'm helping review a tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ids> > that I understand Wikimedia Taiwan is eager to use, which uses a parser > hook to render ideographic description characters > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Characters_(Unicode_block)> > into PNG glyphs in order to display historic or rare characters which > aren't covered by Unicode. It's very cool. > > The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend > <https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/blob/master/src/idsrend/services/IDSrendServlet.java>, > which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second that > the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should > unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be > security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to mask > content. > > I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in > production. > > Thanks, > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Alexandros Kosiaris <akosia...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
