[QA] Proposal for Zurich Hackathon: Production-like Vagrant

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 01/27/2014 11:49 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
> Ori mentioned to me on IRC about the Hive, Hadoop & Wikimetrics roles
> from Andrew Otto work on both Vagrant and Operations/Puppet.git as
> simple submodules. If we could convert other modules to be this way, we
> could exactly replicate production.

I don't know that much about Puppet, but I like the idea of this 
approach.  It allowing doing things piece by piece, then composing them 
into both production and MWV.

> Although, I'm not sure that's something that'll fit a Hackathon. As I
> mentioned, identifying specific mediawiki related things that are not
> the same and fixing those would probably be a better end outcome (I like
> hackathons where something gets finished up rather than just started :P).

Specific submodules could be finished, if this approach is chosen.

Matt Flaschen