User:Bryan Hilderbrand/Meeting Notes (10FEB)
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Attendees
- Ad Strack van Schijndel
- Bryan Hilderbrand
- Cindy Cicalese
- Lex Sulzer
- Rich Evans
- Yaron Koren
Meeting notes for MediaWiki "Infrastructure" (Project Canasta) Discussion (Wed Feb 03 16:30-17:30 UTC 2020)
Notes
The meeting voice transcription is available on the talk page.
- Yaron I hope this isn't just me, ideally other people will use this
- As a note, the project has the following parts so far (as defined on the Project Canasta on MediaWiki.org):
- A system that allows for creating a "starter installation" of MediaWiki plus some specified set of extensions and skins, possibly using Composer.
- A system that allows for publishing a downloadable version of this installation - and potentially the software environment around it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP - using a tool like Docker or Ansible. (See /Infrastructure solution.)
- A mechanism to allow for installing wiki pages onto the resulting wiki, possibly using the Page Exchange extension.
- A set of wiki page packages to fit the various decided-on use cases.
- As a note, the project has the following parts so far (as defined on the Project Canasta on MediaWiki.org):
- Rich I have an investment in Meza, I'm willing to switch as long as there's something better.
- I'm also very interested in the "data structures" marketplace.
- Cindy I probably wont' use anything in my current role
- I feel MW is amazing software that has HUGE potential
- I also feel there's impediments to broader use, including:
- Difficulty in installing, maintaining, & deploying infrastructure
- MW Out-Of-The-Box is a blank page problem
- For some applications, there would be communities that would use it more if solutions existed (and it was known that it was available)
- Data structures are really important (& PX or some other way to share them would be extremely helpful)
- Infrastructure is a separate discussion
- For infrastructure, who is the customer? SysAdmins or New Users?
Chat transcript
Content pulled from the chat record of the meeting.