A few of us have been discussing how awesome it would be to use MediaWiki-Vagrant[1] to create a portable production-like environment. This would give Mediawiki engineers a common ground from which to develop core code and/or extensions, and by coming close to mimicking Wikimedia's production environment, would hopefully reduce the amount of friction around getting features out to production. Also, this is something that we would be able to pre-package this for new engineers - imagine handing a new MediaWiki engineer a USB stick with an up-to-date MediaWiki-Vagrant instance that closely mimics production at say, a future hackathon. We started chatting about what it would take to get us there, and identified some initial steps that we'd like to tackle at the Zürich Hackathon - namely, turning a few puppetized production services into roles that we could use in MediaWiki-Vagrant. We've created a corresponding 'topic' on the Hackathon's topic page[2] to describe what we'd like to achieve at the Hackathon. Please review, comment, and certainly add yourself as an 'interested person' if this catches your fancy and you plan to attend the hackathon. -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687