Hi Steven,
Thanks for the encouragement! Comments inline:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I didn't see it in the docs above, so thought I'd ask... Is this going to include rollout of the CodeEditor extension, or will that be done separately?
That's a good question. My initial instinct is to say "just Scribunto/Lua", but follow that closely with a CodeEditor deployment very soon. Tim may have something else in mind for this, though, so he may correct me.. Is there any reason you're aware of not to deploy CodeEditor as well? Any reason why we should avoid deploying Scribunto without CodeEditor?
This is exciting! Do we have plans for further measurement when it comes to Lua's impact on page load times/publishing any results so far? In addition to the general benefit of not having to program using wikitext/parser functions, I seem to remember the performance improvements being the big selling point of Scribunto.
Tim did some initial benchmarks which showed a pretty marked improvement with the Cite template: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting/Benchmarking
The cluster impact is going to be pretty modest (possibly unmeasurable at this point) but will have a positive impact once templates are converted to Lua.
Rob