On 10/7/07, The Fearow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ideally we should allow total VM control - something that runs a total new > OS. That way if for instance someone wants to run something important that > is restricted to only one operating system, we can easily run it.
No thank you, I like to avoid pain. We already have enough problems with users setting up widely used tools then losing interest leaving the tools unmaintained. I wouldn't want to scale that up to complete operating systems. We already have some 5 operating systems used in various parts of Wikimedia infrastructure adding more is just not desirable even if it's for an ancillary server. Really, I think if we do the special projects thing it should be done more with a focus on making things scalable, maintainable, and generally production grade. .. and getting there usually means simplicity, consistency, learnability, and documentation. "Lets give people a hosted VM to screw around with" is just the wrong direction, IMO. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
