On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:11 PM Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:05 PM Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wait, are you saying that WMF uses MediaWiki-Vagrant to run the
> > Wikipedias
> > > etc? I thought they was not correct.
> >
> > No, MediaWiki-Vagrant is not used for Wikimedia's production hosting
> > environment. It is however the only semi-official and semi-maintained
> > (its a long story) shared development environment. I have worked for
> > the Wikimedia Foundation for a bit over 5 years and have used
> > MediaWiki-Vagrant as part of my development workflow for that entire
> > time. We do not track statistics on MediaWiki-Vagrant usage among
> > Foundation engineering teams, but I can anecdotally say that a number
> > of teams either currently or in the recent past have used
> > MediaWiki-Vagrant as their standard development environment as well.
> > It has roles for setting up fairly exotic systems such as CentralAuth
> > complete with a dedicated loginwiki or Flow with external storage.
> >
> > MediaWiki-Vagrant uses a lot of custom Puppet code to provide a system
> > that can reliably and repeatedly provision a wikifarm within a virtual
> > machine (or LXC container) that comes about as close as one is
> > reasonably able to running the same software with similar
> > configuration to the actively maintained parts of the Wikimedia
> > production environment.
>
> Very tempting.... Maybe I should pursue both options in parallel, and
> install vagrant on my host machine. If I want more real-time help in
> setting this up, would #wikimedia-dev be the right channel to ask questions
> in?

There are usually folks in both #wikimedia-dev and #wikimedia-tech on
Freenode that can help with general MediaWiki-Vagrant questions.

Bryan
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Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <[email protected]>
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement    Boise, ID USA
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