Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Local Dev/Updates

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Update 2021-01-26: [MediaWiki-Docker] Split PHP-FPM and Apache containers

 * New PHP and Apache images were published from dev-images
 * docker-compose.yml and DEVELOPERS.md were updated accordingly in core
 * Upgraded to Xdebug 3.x

Update 2020-12-03: [MediaWiki-Docker] mw docker cli additions

 * Docker-compose exec feature was added to the mw docker cli (T262370)
 * Error handling for the mw docker cli was updated so that errors will always be displayed. Verbosity levels were reduced to 2.

Update 2020-10-02: [MediaWiki-Docker] Support for rest.php and VisualEditor

 * The MediaWiki-Docker working directory was changed to support using rest.php (T261051)
 * The apache config for the MediaWiki base image was updated to support loading pages with slashes in the title in visual editor (T262392)

Update 2020-09-28: Verbosity levels added to mw docker cli commands

 * 3 levels of verbosity were added to the mw docker cli commands so that users can choose how much information they would like to be provided by the cli