From my point of view, this is something what will be possible in future. I
thought that once we finish working on beta cluster, all deployment will be done there, and then once it is found working, it's merged with production. Now it works the other way - changes are done in production, and then merged to labs. I think this should change, and once it is done, people should be able to modify configuration of labs - thus changing the production in future.
But given labs were flagged as "stable" few weeks ago, this is going to take a while. But that's how I see it, maybe it's going to be done differently.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
Even before joining the WMF I have heard about the "opportunities for sysadmins to contribute", the possibility to get involved in Wikipedia that way, how great https://labs.wikimedia.org/ is for this purpose and the inevitable mention to Puppet at some point.
While improving http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**How_to_contributehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contributeI couldn't find (m)any details about how a volunteer sysadmin could enter this path and make progress until, say, becoming a Wikimedia sysadmin wearing a 'got [Wikimedia logo] root' shirt.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Sysadmin_hubhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hubseems to be the closest landing page for a sysadmin volunteer, but that page needs love and there is little to be found there for wannabe contributors.
I can put some time sorting out this, but I need help from the people in the know. We could start defining the first step that a potential sysadmin volunteer could make in order to become a helpful contributor.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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