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(a)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_contribute<http://www.mediawiki.o…
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_hub<http://www.mediawiki.org/wi…
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:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/…
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