I was bound to forget something with such a long email and I should have included Adam Shorland as a main contributor to MediaWiki-Docker!
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:39 PM Jeena Huneidi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > TL;DR: > New mailing list for local dev discussion -> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/local-dev > New wiki page for updates -> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Local_Dev_Updates > > This year’s developer satisfaction survey[0] revealed that many people > felt there wasn’t enough communication around local dev improvement > efforts. In fact, some people didn’t even know that there were any. The > following is a brief history of those efforts and an update on what we have > in progress, as well as some ways for us to communicate and keep informed > about the local development space. > > A little under 2 years ago, I took on the task of developing a > container-based development environment for mediawiki and services, > partially since our production deployments are moving in that direction. As > someone who had never done development on Mediawiki and its surrounding > extensions and services, and whose job was not to do that development, this > was (and is) a challenge. Here’s a quick outline of what I, with other > contributors, did since then: > > 1. Coded and analyzed the 2019 developer satisfaction survey[1] and > did one on one interviews with developers to understand the problems faced > by developers. > - This research provided insights into areas in and out of the > scope of local development that probably deserve more attention > 2. Created a prototype in minikube[2] > - Brennen Bearnes created the dev-images repo to support this work > - Demonstrated at the Prague Hackathon in 2019 > - Did not generate much interest > - Confirmed suspicions that kubernetes is not an ideal tool for > developing > 3. Led local-dev work group meetings > 4. Presented findings and ideas at Tech Conf in 2019[3] with Brennen > - Together with session attendees, decided to create > mediawiki-docker[4], a lightweight dev solution for pure mediawiki > developers. > - Had another session to attempt to figure out what kinds of services, > etc, could be grouped together for more complex development > environments, > but didn’t explain this in a way that session attendees understood, and > they probably left frustrated > 5. Continued work on mediawiki-docker, and a cli[5] to simplify > repetitive docker commands > - Kosta Harlan, along with Brennen, Mukunda Modell, and James > Forrester headed this up > - Zeljko Fillipin (and a bunch of other people!) worked on > documentation of setting up a number of extensions to use with > mediawiki-docker, which indicates some adoption of mediawiki-docker > > You can collaborate with us or track our progress by visiting our > phabricator work board[6]. Tasks welcome :) > > As a preview, some open tasks are: > > - Command-line wrapper for interacting with core's docker-compose > stack - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246111 > - Tasks under this task to make the CLI more useful > > > - Set up distribution of MediaWiki-Docker CLI - > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250241 > - Accomplishing this means devs can use cli commands to interact with > mediawiki-docker without cloning the cli repo and building the project > > > - Set up CI for mediawiki-docker - > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248779 > - So we can avoid regressions > > We’re still exploring the best way to manage docker-compose files for > different extensions and services for a more complex development > environment. > > To address the concerns about lack of communication in a more consistent > manner, I’d like to introduce a long-overdue way for us to have discussion > on local dev topics through a new local-dev mailing list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/local-dev. I’ve also created > this wiki page for updates about local-dev: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Local_Dev_Updates. > Since I’ve recently created this page, there is not much to see there at > the moment. > > If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope these changes will > help improve communication and collaboration with everyone who wants to > participate. > > [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2020 > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2019 > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/releng/local-charts > [3] > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZuQGkzXylvJnPSmP4epKjsS7TghXvK99AwXTHdNng4c/edit?usp=sharing, > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15a5yxOyPGlOADIQ6D4MmxM7ucvkec2ySpeRv-6p85o4/edit?usp=sharing > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Docker > [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/tools/cli > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-docker/ > > -- > Jeena Huneidi > Software Engineer, Release Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation
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