User:Bryan Hilderbrand/Meeting Notes (21JAN)

Attendees

• Bryan Hilderbrand
• Cindy Cicalese
• Greg Rundlett
• Ike Hecht
• Jeroen De Dauw
• Lex Sulzer
• Rich Evans
• Yaron Koren

Meeting notes for MediaWiki "Infrastructure" (Project Canasta) Discussion (Thurs Jan 21 16:30-17:30 UTC 2020)

Notes

The meeting voice transcription is available on the talk page.

1. Introductions
2. Yaron Listed the basic requirements for infrastructure
   • Looks like Lex is the only on that added anything
   • But is what you have here not working?
     • Lex I have it all working, but what I wrote is a high level overview
3. Greg I don't think Meza/QualityBox is a good solution right now, I don't have time to work on it and it's not at 1.35 yet
   • Could we use the WMF Wikibase Docker image (from WMDE)? It has the benefit of being supported by the WMF
     • Yaron That might be a bad thing since we can't change it and might need to fork it anyway
     • Greg It could be a downstream fork
4. Greg One thing I know for sure, never use Bitnami, that code is a mess
5. Cindy There is an "official" Docker image made by David Barratt
   • Many people use this
   • MediaWiki Docker Dev by Adam Shoreland, can quickly build up a testing wiki with XD-Bug
   • The Docker Compose that Greg was talking about comes with SQL Light
   • The question is if this is for development or intended to "straight to production"?
     • If production, you need another layer of orchestration like Kubernetes
6. Lex Lex asked Greg whether his Docker file contains anything related to MW or if it is MW agnostic?
   • I suggest an Apache container that is MW agnostic
   • Yaron It would be nice if the solution was easy and straightforward for the average Wiki Admin
   • Cindy Ideally it can handle the complexity with orchestration
   • Lex My solution can handle that
   • Cindy The nice thing about Meza is that it will take any CentOS base & turn it into a MW capable platform