Nova Resource:Sentry/Overview

Sentry software - installed via pypi, deployed as a "package" (actually a virtualenv stored in a git repo) from operations/software/sentry
Puppet role in operations/puppet
Sentry MediaWiki extension reports Javascript and PHP errors caught by MediaWiki
Buggy MediaWiki extension generates errors for testing Sentry

sentry-XX: stable version of Sentry; build instuctions: just create a jessie host and apply the sentry security group (opens web ports for receiving error reports and SMTP port for receiving notes on errors via email replies) and the sentry puppet role, set up proxy if it does not exist yet, set sentry_host_name (this is the hostname of the proxy)
sentry-alpha, sentry-alpha2...: dev versions of Sentry; build instuctions: create jessie host, apply the sentry security group and the role::puppet::self puppet role, set up proxy if it does not exist yet, set sentry_host_name, log in, run sudo puppet agent -tv, go to /var/lib/git/operations/puppet, edit code or check out gerrit patch to test, apply sentry puppet role, run puppet agent again
sentry-testwiki: test MediaWiki installations that reports errors; build instructions: create host, set up proxy if it does not exist yet, set up Vagrant, install sentry vagrant role, create /srv/vagrant/settings.d/20-Sentry.php with <?php $wgSentryDsn = '<DSN>';. You can get the DSN from <sentry server hostname>/docs/platforms/?pid=<project id>.
sentry-builder: packaging server; build instructions: create jessie host, follow instructions in README file

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