On Monday, December 17, 2018 12:57:56 PM EST Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> The reason is that discourse and other many other tools people 'want'
> are not light weight 'oh just throw a server up and have your thing in
> 2 minutes and never look at it again'. They are tools which you need a
> lot of infrastructure set up and running, and a strong commitment of
> time and effort to keep running. Once you set it up beyond the base
> example version every website says you can do, you find that more and
> more staff and time are devoted to keeping it going.. just like the
> Fedora Build System and all its related tools take up a lot of time,
> effort, and money.  When you try to run these in parallel or in 'spare
> time' you end up with the main 'product' slowing down, and the others
> ones getting stretched out because the amount of time you can put
> towards it eats into the main product.
> 
> So it becomes very compelling to let a company that is dedicated to
> running the complex tool to do so.

I'm sorry, but as a sysadmin, especially with experience un-dockerizing 
Discourse, I just can't take that at face value. Discourse, though a pain to 
update, is not really that hard to host. Maybe an hour of effort a week, max, 
if you're doing it entirely manually. Sure, complexity increases when you add 
plugins, but not significantly.

I just hope we're not paying for that thing, though we probably are.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

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