On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:11 PM Huji Lee huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:05 PM Huji Lee huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:
Wait, are you saying that WMF uses MediaWiki-Vagrant to run the
Wikipedias
etc? I thought they was not correct.
No, MediaWiki-Vagrant is not used for Wikimedia's production hosting environment. It is however the only semi-official and semi-maintained (its a long story) shared development environment. I have worked for the Wikimedia Foundation for a bit over 5 years and have used MediaWiki-Vagrant as part of my development workflow for that entire time. We do not track statistics on MediaWiki-Vagrant usage among Foundation engineering teams, but I can anecdotally say that a number of teams either currently or in the recent past have used MediaWiki-Vagrant as their standard development environment as well. It has roles for setting up fairly exotic systems such as CentralAuth complete with a dedicated loginwiki or Flow with external storage.
MediaWiki-Vagrant uses a lot of custom Puppet code to provide a system that can reliably and repeatedly provision a wikifarm within a virtual machine (or LXC container) that comes about as close as one is reasonably able to running the same software with similar configuration to the actively maintained parts of the Wikimedia production environment.
Very tempting.... Maybe I should pursue both options in parallel, and install vagrant on my host machine. If I want more real-time help in setting this up, would #wikimedia-dev be the right channel to ask questions in?
There are usually folks in both #wikimedia-dev and #wikimedia-tech on Freenode that can help with general MediaWiki-Vagrant questions.
Bryan