On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently a lot of our extension Vagrant roles are
working like Swiss
knives: they do everything possible to imagine. For example, MobileFrontend
always installs 3 optional dependencies while CirrusSearch includes its
configuration for unit tests that among other things
enforces $wgCapitalLinks = false which is untypical for most MW installs.
I hate that stupid config file for Cirrus. HATE HATE HATE.
I think many of these actually make development
harder. Solution? Can we
split some larger roles to "basic" and "advanced" parts, so that
people who
need an extension to play around or to satisfy a dependency will not be
forced to emulate a significant part of WMF infrastructure?
Not a bad idea. Cirrus doesn't depend on half the things it says
it does unless you're wanting to run browser tests.
-Chad