I'm writing to communicate an upcoming major change in MediaWiki-Vagrant.
In the coming week, I'm going to upgrade the base image from Precise
Pangolin to Trusty Tahr, the latest version from Canonical. Trusty
integrates many new open-source software components, many of them
specifically targeting cloud and virtual environments. You can read more
about the release in the release announcement and the release notes:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/04/17/ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr-released/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes
This change to MediaWiki-Vagrant anticipates a migration of Wikimedia's
application server stack from Precise to Trusty, the groundwork for which
is already well underway. (Wikimedia's TechOps team, substantially assisted
by volunteer contributors, has completed a migration to Puppet 3, and has
made a Trusty image available on Labs).
I hope to keep the migration painless so as to not disrupt the work of
those of you who use this stack as your primary development environment.
The fact that a similar migration process is underway for Wikimedia's
production infrastructure will, I hope, foster increased collaboration
across Wikimedia and the broader developer community.