Hi folks,

Tim, Ori and I got together yesterday and then, from our raw notes, I've added a few things to our idea backlog. My cleanup may not be entirely faithful to our conversation, so bear that in mind as you read this. I've included the relevant bits below for convenience, but it's also available here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

Rob

Installation consolidation

Aligning MediaWiki developer and third party installation methods. Easy install of more complicated MediaWiki installs (e.g. Parsoid, PDF rendering, Math, etc). Possible use of Vagrant-Composer?

- https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/containers

- Composer package types:
  - https://github.com/composer/installers
  - there exists a very nominal 'mediawiki-extension' type: https://github.com/composer/installers/blob/master/src/Composer/Installers/MediaWikiInstaller.php
  - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65188#c3

- Assess viability of deploying MediaWiki using Containers to both the production cluster and various cloud platforms
  - ...as a way of improving our internal deployment process
  - ...as a way of making MediaWiki substantially easier to install by third-parties

Library-ization of MediaWiki

MediaWiki components
CLDR parser
cssmin
HashRing
Aaron's UUID generator
Zip directory reader
PHP JSON parser
Monolog
Profiler
- There is a lot of code that is reusable save for wfDebug / WfProfile calls are often the only things

Other components
- Pybal

Benefits:

Encourages open-source contributions
Encourages developers to think in terms of clearly-defined interfaces

Configuration management

Allowing Stewards to set certain things in the UI (e.g. per-wiki logos)
Cleaner command line methods to make configuration changes
Get rid of configuration globals
Requests for comment/Extension registration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109850/