On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Agreed; "mobilefrontend" and "mobilefrintend-tests" would probably work as a pair, same with cirrus etc. however the list of roles is getting kinda long and may need a better display with descriptions and search in the future... If we add lots more extensions *and* their optional tests or configs it's going to be a lot. :)
I have started to work on some patches that will change the way that we manage the collection of enabled roles (hiera for the puppet nerds in the audience). When I was talking to Ori about this he had an idea that I dismissed initially, but which might actually be a cool thing to do. His idea was to make the role toggling be manageable via a web interface on the VM's webserver. I think his actual idea may have involved making a MW extension that managed the entire local hiera settings file. I'm not sure that I'm in love with the wikiification idea, but if we want a cross-platform interface with search, sort and grouping... a web app seems like a reasonable thing we could create.
Bryan