Hi Gergo, Thanks for voicing your concerns! This is just one step in the information gathering process. I actually started out by looking through the Developer Satisfaction survey. I did consider sending out another survey, but ended up choosing the interview method for this step because I’d like to get a deeper look into how people work and the problems they face, which is difficult to glean from surveys. I think it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fully capture every local development variation. Still, I’d like to be as inclusive as possible and enable anyone who wants to respond to do so. I can definitely consult with the team on sending out an additional survey tailored to local development. Did you have another method in mind? On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:13 PM Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

Hi Everyone, Thank you for participating in the local development environment interviews! I was able to get a much better idea of what changes could give you the highest impact in terms of satisfaction as we move to create a development environment that more closely matches production while being mindful of your needs. Here are the most common issues I found: - You’d like an environment that is simple to use and easy to set up, and doesn’t require much maintenance from you. - You get lost in the documentation, or sometimes can’t find it, and assistance isn’t readily available when things go wrong. - You also find your current environment takes up too many resources and runs too slowly. - You have a hard time managing your environment configuration(s). - You can find it difficult to share your work with other parties The most requested features were: - Production-like test/dev environments - Real content You can find more details on the Mediawiki Developer Satisfaction page[0]. Initially, I (and others) will be working on a local development environment to address these problems. This will be a gradual and iterative effort, so not all issues will be solved right away. I hope to release it to a group of testers as soon as we have made sufficient progress. We plan to try a Docker/Kubernetes based implementation, possibly building upon preexisting works. If you have ideas you’d like to share, please feel free to discuss them on the talk page[1]. If you have any concerns, please let me know. [0]. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction> [1]. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Developer_Satisfaction> Jeena On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:14 PM Jeena Huneidi &lt;jhuneidi(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Jeena Huneidi Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation