HipHop deployment

WMF engineering activity

HipHop deployment

Support in MediaWiki for the HipHop source code transformer, and deployment to the Wikimedia cluster

Group:	Platform & Operations
Start:	after 1.18
End:
Management:	Tim Starling
Team:	Sam Reed, Chad Horohoe, Mark Bergsma, Domas Mituzas

HipHop for PHP is a source code transformer.

This page is about Wikimedia-sponsored work on HipHop support in MediaWiki, and its deployment to Wikimedia production wikis.

Roadmap

This work is on hold until the Hip Hop developers make more progress on the Hip Hop Virtual Machine (hhvm)

Below are items archived from the 2011-2 Roadmap document.

• preparation
  • Create HipHop instance that includes a full production image
  • run CI tests on HipHop as well as Zend
  • push further necessary fixes into the detail plan
  • possibly break out parsing from rest of MediaWiki

Additional documents

• User requirements:
• Specifications:
• Software design document:
• Test plan:
• Documentation plan:
• User interface design docs:
• Schedule:
• Task management:
• Release management plan:
• Communications plan:
• Status updates