Hands-on introduction to MediaWiki-Vagrant development environment.
USB drives with installation files and instructions will be available as well as help overcoming initial installation problems. Get your laptop setup for easily contributing to MediaWiki!
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | bd808 | T122335 MediaWiki-Vagrant install party (#wikimedia-hackathon-2016) | |||
| Resolved | bd808 | T121065 Replace bd808-vagrant with a new build server instance | |||
| Resolved | coren | T121064 Project entries are created in ldap but not the posix group entry (disallowing ssh, etc) | |||
| Resolved | bd808 | T120982 Create "mediawiki-vagrant" project |
Probably time to start thinking about how we are going to get these populated and over to the venue. @dduvall are you going to be attending the hackathon? If not we should find someone based in SF who will be who can remember to pack them into their suitcase.
help overcoming initial installation problems
Could you make sure that newcomers' issues in that session get documented?
This would allow improving our documentation (e.g. for MS Windows machines?) and lowering entrance barriers.
A good idea that we always try to follow, but I think we can do better than we have in the past if we keep it in mind as an actual focus of the event. We typically get one or two new instructions or notes on wiki from an install party event. Often the help that is given is less finding solutions for new problems and more helping people actually follow the existing directions.
We managed to get 4 people with existing installs that were having problems unstuck, 1 complete new install, and 2 in-progress installs by the end of the session.
No truly new issues surfaced. Most problems were related to corrupt git clones or connection timeouts while installing apt packages.
I've got mediawiki-vagrant up and running including visualeditor role. However with enabling flow provision says ""error: pkg.m4 missing, please install pkg-config". How to surpass this hurdle? Where and how should I install pkg-config (I tried manually several places without success).
This should have been fixed by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281030/ which was merged 2016-04-01T23:49Z (about 2 days ago as I write this). The package was a missed build dependency of Varnish 4.1 (role::varnish) which is pulled in by both role::flow and role::thumbor to help with various testing scenarios.