[QA] Proposal for Zurich Hackathon: Production-like Vagrant

[Chris Steipp]

On Jan 24, 2014 12:37 PM, "Yuvi Panda" <yuvipanda at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> A possible variant:
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> Pre-Hackathon prep steps:
>
> - Identify ways in which the Vagrant environment significantly differs
from Production. Not in terms of how the puppet code is written, but in
terms of what is actually different in the end.
>
>
> Hackathon:
>
> - Work on fixing the issues that make the  Vagrant setup differ from
Production setup
> - Work on making browser tests and unit tests run quickly and reliably on
Vagrant
> - Work on building pre-packaged Mediawiki-Vagrant installations that
'just work' from a USB Pen drive.
>
>
> The Pre-hackathon step is probably the most important. Some of the things
I can think of off the top of my head:
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> - No Varnish or Squid
> - i18n files are cached differently
> - No HTTPS redirection
> - Langlinks not setup
> - Doesn't have Captchas setup
> - Doesn't have any AbuseFilter rules setup
> - Doesn't have test data populated
> - Add more...

CentralAuth is a big difference, but I'm not sure if that is easy to setup
with vagrant. Is that even something we *should* do?

>
> Thoughts?
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