toollabs service needs to be productionized

[adamwight]

What a great project, thank you for writing this!

I noticed that the extension makes calls to a wmflabs service. That's fine for prototyping, but production wikis can't rely on labs services because of uptime and security concerns.

The toollabs code will need to go through code and security review--please let me know where the code lives and I'll try to help start that process.

Thank you!

[adamwight]

Oops! I see you already linked to the service code:
https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM

[MGdesigner]

Yes, it is. Welcome. :)

Start point of the server program is src/idsrend/services/IDSrendServlet.java It's a java servlet. Now Working on tomcat of the toollab server.

[samwilson]

It may be difficult to get the tool into production, due to the higher requirements for security etc.

Another possibility is to continue using Tool Labs but to add a caching mechanism to this extension so that if Tool Labs is not available, image display is not broken. This wouldn't work for editing, but at least would remove calls to tools.wmflabs.org for readers.

Also, now that https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148693 is open, should we close this issue and continue discussion over there? :-)

[MGdesigner]

ok