User:Bryan Hilderbrand/Meeting Notes (10FEB)

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.

1. 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):
     1. A system that allows for creating a "starter installation" of MediaWiki plus some specified set of extensions and skins, possibly using Composer.
     2. 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.)
     3. A mechanism to allow for installing wiki pages onto the resulting wiki, possibly using the Page Exchange extension.
     4. A set of wiki page packages to fit the various decided-on use cases.
2. 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.
3. 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

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