On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:14 AM Adam Wight <awight(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The challenges are first that it's based on a
Tomcat backend
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,
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