[Engineering] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie

Thu Mar 16 10:48:53 UTC 2017

Another known issue is that Zotero doesn't work on Jessie because of its
dependency on a now deprecated Mozilla library called XULrunner [1], and as
a result citoid results will be a lot poorer. I'm not sure we ever really
resolved how to deal with this. Zotero is going to be removing the
dependency on XULrunner eventually, but I suspect our timeline is
significantly ahead of theirs. We discussed using Zotero's translators
ourselves natively, but never made any progress on it.[2]

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107302
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93579

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The 'master' branch of MediaWiki-Vagrant will now provision and
> maintain Debian Jessie based VMs. The next time you fetch
> mediawiki/vagrant.git changes to your laptop or Labs VM and try to run
> `vagrant up` or `vagrant provision` it will complain that your Vagrant
> managed VM is not running the correct base operating system.
>
> There are two ways to deal with this:
>
> 1) Follow the instructions given to delete and recreate your VM. This
> is the most awesome long term thing to do, but may be annoying in the
> short term. If you have heavily customized the wikis running in your
> VM it is up to you to figure out how to backup things before you
> destroy your current VM and then restore the changes after you build a
> new Jessie-based VM.
>
> 2) Switch your git checkout to the 'trusty-compat' branch of
> mediawiki/vagrant.git. This trades short term efficiency for long term
> pain. The trusty-compat branch is not going away any time soon, but it
> will drift out of sync with Puppet changes on the master branch.
>
> See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429> for known issues with
> the Jessie conversion. The only two I'm aware of at this time are
> related to fundraising (T154264) and an NFS permissions mapping
> problem when installing ChangeProp on a VM with OSX as the host
> operating system and NFS shares enabled for Vagrant (T158617).
>
> Bryan
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