On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:14 AM Adam Wight awight@wikimedia.org wrote:
The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend < https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/blob/master/src/idsr...
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which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second that the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to mask content.
I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in production.
So we don't use Tomcat anywhere right now, so yeah that's unprecedented. I did attempt it awhile back for Gerrit (like, years ago), but I found Tomcat to be a huge pain in the butt for basically no gain (in that case).
It's not impossible--there's packages and all that fun stuff for Tomcat and related tooling--but I think that Tomcat generally isn't worth the overhead and maintenance burden for a single service.
-Chad