Another possibility to get your dev environment up and running very quickly is to use Vagrant http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vagrant.
Ori has been working very hard on setting it up for all platforms, and IMO this should be pushed as our preferred method for new development (and possibly old dev as well).
Basically this is a set of scripts that will download and configure a linux virtual machine, and set up all the needed databases and mediawiki configuration files. The actual MediaWiki code will remain on the host machine, making development much easier.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Sandeep,
On 04/01/2013 08:48 AM, sandeep kumar wrote:
Can we get access to Labs? If so, how can we get it? I triedcreating an account but it is asking for something like "shell account user name". I would like to have some help here as well..
We recommend support channels at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Mentorship_programs/Possible_** projects#Where_to_starthttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Where_to_start
You can get fast answers on IRC. If you want to use a mailing list then wikitech-l is more suitable for GSOC / OPW / OSS contributions topics.
Your shell account could be "sandeep" or (as explained in the form):
A shell account name is required. It must start with a-z, and can only contain a-z, 0-9, and - characters.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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