WikiReleaseTeam/Release management meetup

Release Management Meetup
Wikimania, Hongkong, 10. August 2013, 14:30 HKT

Attendees

 * Mark Hershberger
 * Markus Glaser
 * Manuel Schneider
 * Ralf Roletschek
 * Raymond King
 * Benny Lin
 * Yuri Perohanych

Farming

 * several of the attendees were running wiki farms
 * farming should be kept in mind for update processes

Support desk

 * Support desk language is English. Hard for non-English speakers
 * You can post in other languages there and it will be translated.
 * We need to make that option more prominent as apparently it wasn't clear

Spam

 * Spam is a big issue for sites running MediaWiki. Especially new user registrations with spam accounts
 * We should ship the tarball with a good default configuration, e.g. to use SpamBlacklist with the list found on meta
 * Spambots get through even with confirm email configuration

Update / Upgrade

 * Extension compatibility is a big problem
 * Templates, gadgets and wikipedia functionality should be bundled. So you have a installation option "like Wikipedia"

Installer

 * ship the core
 * download extensions from somewhere

Vagrant

 * interesting for cloud. Should be one technology among others for shipping MediaWiki

Configuration

 * we need some sort of extension manager