Working locally w/ Vagrant

Hi PhistucK,

I wanted to show you this upcoming patchset that will allow us to work locally on mediawiki code.  

I have been working toward using Wikimedia maintained  MediaWiki-Vagrant workspace so we can use the same tool as them, and add our own packages on top of it.

You can see the directives here [0]

  [0]: https://github.com/webplatform/mediawiki/blob/201408-upgrade/VAGRANT.md
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Renoir 
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On August 25, 2014 10:36:50 PM EDT, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org> wrote:
>Hi PhistucK,
>
>I had a mental note to reply to this, so here goes.
>
>On 2014-08-15, 9:34 AM, PhistucK wrote:
>> I looked into it a bit more and it seems like our version is a
>customized
>> version or an unpublished fork. wgCommentsObjects does not appear in
>the
>> official JavaScript code.
>>
>https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FComments/8a481d24e9a1a2d2b123a833ef970a4719c935a5/Comment.js
>
>That’s right. We have an extension that extends that particular...
>extension.
>
>So, this specific extension-extension is non source controlled and
>pasted in our deployment server. That’s one of the numerous things I
>had
>to sort through.
>
>Good news is that i’m about to upgrade the stack along with a cleanup
>of
>all those rogue quick changes so that everything there will be source
>controlled and managed properly.
>
>> Where can I find Comment.js on the WebPlatform GitHub repositories
>(or
>> anywhere else I can patch)?
>
>Nowhere, until I push what i’m working on.
>
>But the comment extension will be disabled altogether in the upcoming
>upgrade. We will soon roll out the notes server that will replace that
>service anyway.
>
>> By the way, our version is outdated (August, 2012). The last official
>> revision is from December, 2013.
>
>Yes, because upgrading wasn’t a priority.
>
>You can see upcoming version at our future-old-next-current staging
>server [0].
>
>  [0]: http://docs.mroftalpbew.org/wiki/Special:Version
>
>> Anyway, once I find the source, I can send a pull request right away,
>it
>> should be a very easy and small fix.
>
>Thanks, but no need.
>
>Talking about the comments.
>
>Do you think you could help us import them [1] into the new commenting
>system? Tell me if you’d like to help there.
>
>  [1]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Special:Log/comments
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>
>Renoir Boulanger  |  Developer operations engineer
>W3C  |  Web Platform Project
>
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>@renoirb
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