Hi Steven,
Thanks for the encouragement! Comments inline:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)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