This is great news. I was hoping for something like that for years.
I will see if I can align my provisional MediaWiki docker environment [1]
with your work.
Thanks a lot and keep on going with this great work.

Physikerwelt
[1] https://github.com/physikerwelt/mediawiki-docker


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 5:44 PM Brennen Bearnes <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> TL;DR: `docker-compose up` gets you a Docker environment with which
> to develop.
>
> The Engineering Productivity group is happy to announce the
> availability of a new, official Docker environment for MediaWiki
> core. [0] This is a component of our work on improving developer
> productivity, as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's "Platform
> Evolution" [1] multi-year priority, looking to support faster, more
> reliable technical change for our communities. We've been exploring
> options for a year now, and we had a great deal of input,
> particularly at the TechConf 2019, where Kosta Harlan worked
> closely with us to move this forward. [2]
>
> This new environment has been built for simple experimentation,
> development, and testing of proposed changes to MediaWiki core. It
> is designed to be particularly simple and easy to use, and intended
> particularly to be a good option for newbies, be they testers,
> designers, developers, or others who have not yet invested a great
> deal of their time in setting up local environments.
>
> We intend for this environment to become the official, supported,
> and advertised entry point for small-scale development. If you find
> issues, or have suggestions for improvements, we'd love to hear
> from you. [3] We will be adjusting various bits of documentation
> over time to encourage futher use, but if you find some out-of-date
> instructions, please do fix them, or flag for us to do.
>
> We know that there are number of people who need a more complex,
> configurable, and powerful development and testing environment,
> even up to being a "Wikimedia production-like" state. This is not
> that environment; we plan to provide a more configurable and thus
> more complex, "heavy-weight" alternative for that use case in the
> future. You may wish to follow our work in Phabricator. [4]
>
> Our huge thanks to pioneering volunteer and staff colleagues who
> have provided support, testing, and advice, and who have explored
> different uses of Vagrant, Docker, and other techniques for
> providing better forms of MediaWiki testing, development, and
> hosting, which have inspired us on how to best provide this.  We
> all owe you a great debt. Thank you.
>
> Again, if you have questions, comments, or concerns, please do file
> a task so that we can help you! [3]
>
> [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Docker
> [1] -
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Platform_evolution
> [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238224
> [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-docker/
> [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/local-charts/
>
> Yours,
>
> --
> Brennen Bearnes (he/him)
> WMF Release Engineering
>
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