On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Work has begun to upgrade the base distribution for MediaWiki-Vagrant > to Debian Stretch [0]. The Wikimedia production cluster is preparing > for a similar upgrade [1] which will in part allow the Wikimedia wikis > to migrate to PHP 7 [2]. > > == What's new in the stretch-migration branch? == > * Debian Stretch (Debian 9) base image > * Default PHP runtime is Zend PHP 7.0 (HHVM available via role) > * Database is MariaDB 10.1 > * Provisioning via Puppet 4 > > Setting up a basic wiki (no roles enabled) seems to work pretty well. > Additional roles need testing and may require updated Puppet manifests > (Puppet syntax updates, erb syntax updates, package name changes, > additional packages). Help is needed to test roles, file bugs, and > submit patches. With some help I think we can be ready to switch to > Stretch as the default base image in early/mid January. > > == Testing the Stretch base image and Puppet profiles == > > Its recommended to test with a fresh MediaWiki-Vagrant checkout so if > things go badly you can easily switch back to your original install > and keep working. > > $ git clone --recursive > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/vagrant mwv-stretch > $ cd mwv-stretch > $ git checkout stretch-migration > $ ./setup.sh > $ vagrant up > > You can run `vagrant roles list -e -1` to get a nice list of the roles > you have enabled on your normal Trusty VM install to copy over to your > Stretch testing VM. This one-liner liner might even do it for you: > > $ cd mwv-stretch > $ vagrant roles enable $(cd ../vagrant; vagrant roles list -e -1) > $ vagrant provision > > > [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181353 > [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174431 > [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370
Work has gone pretty well on the stretch-migration branch. I'd like to merge the branch to master and make it the default experience on or around 2018-01-18. Having a major feature branch like this alive for more than a month makes integrating the changes more difficult. It also makes things harder for people who are making improvements on the master branch. It would be great to have some more users testing it out to make sure the roles that they need to work with MediaWiki-Vagrant day to day are working there. Special thanks to Stas, Gilles, Hashar, and Ċ½eljko for the bug reports and patches that they have already supplied. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
