[QA] Workshop today: pre-briefing

[Quim Gil]

On 07/18/2013 05:57 PM, Ori Livneh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org
> <mailto:qgil at wikimedia.org>> wrote:
>
>     [*] I just completed the Vagrant route alone on my laptop, running
>     Ubuntu. It was the first time I did anything with VirtualBox and
>     Vagrant. It involved large downloads and some patience addressing
>     error messages.
>
>
> Please file bugs for any incorrect or confusing behavior you encounter! :)

The errors came while dealing with plain VirtualBox and Vagrant 
installations, and when they had to talk to each other. Nothing tough, 
you just have to read the error messages and do what they tell you. But 
you could see me rolling my eyes when an error message says "Linux 
kernel headers are missing, install..." and methinks "Kernel headers! I 
just want a MediaWiki environment!"  :)

Seeing that we are getting MediaWiki Vagrant running in Linux, Mac and 
Windows, I think we should consider this the one and only environment 
for volunteers. The documentation at 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant/Installation_details is 
already good and more users with more question would improve it. Once 
you are done with the plain installation, adding the Browser Testing 
role is trivial.

-- 
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil