WikiReleaseTeam/Release management meetup

Release Management Meetup

Wikimania, Hongkong, 10. August 2013, 14:30 HKT

Attendees

• Mark Hershberger
• Markus Glaser
• Manuel Schneider
• Ralf Roletschek
• Raymond King
• Benny Lin
• Yuri Perohanych

Topics covered

Farming

several of the attendees were running wiki farms

farming should be kept in mind for update processes

Support desk

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

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

Extension compatibility is a big problem

Templates, gadgets and wikipedia functionality should be bundled. So you have a installation option "like Wikipedia"

Installer

ship the core

download extensions from somewhere

Vagrant

interesting for cloud. Should be one technology among others for shipping MediaWiki

Configuration

• we need some sort of extension manager