Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Vagrant survey

This is a place for us to create a survey to gain some insight into how MediaWiki Vagrant is being used by developers. There will probably be two variations of the survey: one for WMF engineering teams and one for the engineering community as a whole. Reasoning for that is we can expect some level of experience with vagrant and an ability for teams to be more proscriptive in it's use than the wider community.

Questions

• Are you a WMF employee?
  • Yes
  • No
• What's your role within the community and/or WMF?
  • Engineer: (answer)
  • Non-engineer: (answer)
• Do you use the Beta Cluster? What for? (check all that apply)
  • I don't use it
  • Usability testing
  • Demos of upcoming features
  • Automated browser testing
  • Black-/white-/grey-box testing
  • Other: (answer)
• Have you heard of MediaWiki-Vagrant before seeing this survey?
  • Yes
  • No
• How did you hear about MediaWiki-Vagrant?
  • Email announcement
  • Found it on wiki
  • Word of mouth
  • IRC discussions
  • Mandated by my team
  • Other (answer)
• Do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant?
  • Yes
  • No, it doesn't seem relevant to what I do
  • No, I have my own development environment already
  • No: (optional answer)
• If Yes to the above, how do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant? (Check all that apply)
  • One local VM
  • Multiple local VMs for different projects
  • In WMFLabs with Labs-Vagrant
• Rate you use of the following MediaWiki-Vagrant features. ("Not Aware of", "Aware of", "Used once", "Used multiple times", "I depend on this feature for my work")
  • Automated setup of wiki in a virtual machine
  • Ability to add custom LocalSettings configuration
  • vagrant list-roles ; vagrant enable-role ; vagrant disable-role
  • vagrant config
  • vagrant git-update
  • vagrant import-dump
  • vagrant ssh
  • vagrant destroy
  • Support for running multiple wikis
  • Support for CirrusSearch development/testing
  • Support for VisualEditor development/testing
  • Support for Flow development/testing
  • Support for Wikidata development/testing
  • Can be used on a Labs server
  • Ability to add custom roles/puppet configuration
  • mwscript <command>
  • foreachwiki <command>
• Would you recommend MWV over developing without?
  • Absolutely not
  • Probably not
  • I'm not sure
  • Probably yes
  • Absolutely yes
• If you answered with anything other than "Probably yes" or "Absolutely yes" for the above, please explain why.
  • text box
• What kinds of features would you like to see added to MWV?
  • Content/template import
  • Better/simpler interface
  • Performance improvements
  • Additional role/extension support: (answer)
  • Better integration with Labs
  • Other: (answer)
• What primary use-case should MWV support?
  • Dev environment as close to WMF production as possible
  • "Lean and mean" MediaWiki environment
  • Something between basic wiki and WMF complexity
• Are you comfortable with command-line tools?
  • Yes!
  • Yes, but I'd rather not
  • I prefer a GUI
• What Operating system do you prefer to use as your primary development platform?
  • Ubuntu Linux (version)
  • Debian Linux (version)
  • Other Linux (answer)
  • Windows (version)
  • OS X (version)
  • Other (answer)
• What Operating system do you prefer to use as your primary deployment platform?
  • WMF cluster
  • Ubuntu Linux (version)
  • Debian Linux (version)
  • Other Linux (answer)
  • Windows (version)
  • OS X (version)
  • Other (answer)
• How often do you update your MWV repository/install (sync with gerrit repo)?
  • Don't use MediaWiki-Vagrant
  • Installed it and never updated since
  • Occasionally/when I remember
  • Once a week
  • Once a day
  • Multiple times per day
  • Other (answer)
• How often do you sync your MediaWiki repositories with the upstream gerrit repositories?
  • Don't use MediaWiki-Vagrant
  • Occasionally/when I remember
  • Once a week
  • Once a day
  • Multiple times per day
  • Other (answer)
• How often do you destroy and recreate your MWV virtual machine?
  • Don't use MediaWiki-Vagrant
  • Installed it and never recreated since
  • Occasionally/when I remember
  • Once a week
  • Once a day
  • Other (answer)
• What is the most time consuming part of maintaining your MediaWik-Vagrant development environment (if you use one)?
  • text box
• What is the most time consuming part of maintaining your local machine (non-MediaWiki-Vagrant) development environment (if you have one)?
  • text box
• Where would you look for information on setting up and maintaining a development environment?
  • On mediawiki.org (where)
  • On wikitech.wikimedia.org (where)
  • In mailing lists (where)
  • On IRC (where)
  • Other (answer)
• Any other feedback on MediaWiki-Vagrant which you haven't already shared?
  • text box