HHVM/status

Last update on: 2011-12-13

2011-05-13
* Discussion at the Berlin Hackathon 2011 (notes)

2011-04-30
Tim Starling implemented basic support for HipHop for PHP in MediaWiki, and invited other developers to improve and continue his work. We will pick this work back up later this year after the completion of some of the other projects above.

2011-06-01
HipHop was discussed during the Berlin hackathon, and it was agreed that HipHop support would be part of the MediaWiki 1.20 release.

2011-07-01
HipHop support is still planned to be part of MediaWiki 1.20. In the meantime, we're looking for volunteers to help us package it for different distributions. Please contact Sumana Harihareswara or the wikitech-l mailing list if you have experience with packaging or would like to get involved in this area.

2011-07-24
This project was mainly on hold in July.

2011-11-23
Mark Hershberger and Tim Starling, with volunteer Mike Dupont, are seeking help with Debian packaging for HipHop.

2011-12-13
Facebook has announced that it will be providing virtual machines for HipHop. That will aid in developing for it. The Roadmap now calls for Platform Engineering and Ops to make more decisions and plans regarding HipHop in February 2012.