On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:14 AM Adam Wight <awi...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend > < > https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/blob/master/src/idsrend/services/IDSrendServlet.java > >, > which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second that > the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should > unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be > security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to mask > content. > > I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in > production. > > So we don't use Tomcat anywhere right now, so yeah that's unprecedented. I did attempt it awhile back for Gerrit (like, years ago), but I found Tomcat to be a huge pain in the butt for basically no gain (in that case). It's not impossible--there's packages and all that fun stuff for Tomcat and related tooling--but I think that Tomcat generally isn't worth the overhead and maintenance burden for a single service. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
