WikiReleaseTeam/Release management meetup
Release Management Meetup
[edit]Wikimania, Hongkong, 10. August 2013, 14:30 HKT
Attendees
[edit]- Mark Hershberger
- Markus Glaser
- Manuel Schneider
- Ralf Roletschek
- Raymond King
- Benny Lin
- Yuri Perohanych
Topics covered
[edit]Farming
[edit]- several of the attendees were running wiki farms
- farming should be kept in mind for update processes
Support desk
[edit]- Support desk language is English. Hard for non-English speakers
- You can post in other languages there and it will be translated.
- We need to make that option more prominent as apparently it wasn't clear
Spam
[edit]- Spam is a big issue for sites running MediaWiki. Especially new user registrations with spam accounts
- We should ship the tarball with a good default configuration, e.g. to use SpamBlacklist with the list found on meta
- Spambots get through even with confirm email configuration
Update / Upgrade
[edit]- Extension compatibility is a big problem
- Templates, gadgets and wikipedia functionality should be bundled. So you have a installation option "like Wikipedia"
Installer
[edit]- ship the core
- download extensions from somewhere
Vagrant
[edit]- interesting for cloud. Should be one technology among others for shipping MediaWiki
Configuration
[edit]- we need some sort of extension manager