Hi Ori, I use your vagrant VM all the time. Thanks!!! If we have a good vagrant setup, getting new devs on-board might be that much easier.
I keep all the notes of the things I needed to do to your VM at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Installing_Linux_virtual_box_under_Windows_7 Most of it is not related to Windows, and I would love to have some (most) of it automated: * reconfigure network to be "hostonly" instead of "bridged" - major security issue * install phpmyadmin & sqlite * samba (very useful on the windows box, possibly others) * configure git tools (script?) * DEBUG <== that's a big one, setting it up for easy nobrainer debugging would be a great help. Including CLI -- i'm having hard time debugging unit tests. An initial shell script * auto-generated the SSH key and place it into the right dir * git submodule update --init Thanks! On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of re-working mediawiki-vagrant, which is a set of > scripts for provisioning a virtual machine for MediaWiki development. I'm > struggling to identify the best way of fetching mediawiki/core. > > An ideal solution would have the following attributes: > > - Fast. > - Includes .git metadata, to facilitate contribution of patches. > - Viable on slow network connections. > - Does not require a Gerrit account (to help newcomers get started quickly) > > What I tried: > > - A shallow (--depth=0) git-clone over HTTPS took around half an hour and > required transferring 272MB, with 200MB taken up by .git/objects/pack. > > - The nightlies on integration.mediawiki.org are small (18MB) and easy to > retrieve, but the most recent one is from December, and they don't contain > any .git metadata. > > - The snapshots Krinkle maintains on the toolserver are both small and > up-to-date, but they too do not contain any .git metadata. > > - The snapshot link on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download ( > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/REL1_20;sf=tgz) > just didn't work. It hangs for a while and then spits out HTML. > > - Getting a snapshot from GitHub would probably work, but I am loathe to > depend on it. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > -- > Ori Livneh > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
