On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think that we can help most users more if we identify the most important use cases and focus on making those *really* easy. The installation in exotic scenarios should still be supported, but I think it's okay if it involves following some instructions manually.
While I agree that the most important cases should be *really* easy, I worry about the implication that all other cases (including development of core MediaWiki without using VMs) should necessarily be allowed to be *really* complex.