https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34393
--- Comment #5 from orenbochman <[email protected]> 2012-02-20 13:46:13 UTC --- I'm fairly new to open source development but I'm pretty sure that if this project was hosted at Java.Net the infrastructure such as SCM, Issue managment CI etc could be taken for granted. The logic being to reduce the barriers to code contibution since it enables a long tail of contributors (AKA a developer community) who's single code contributions in aggregate account for t almost all of code over time. (like wikipedia ...) In theory I would not mind agreeing to your request. In practice however your request is not practical -- coordination costs far outweigh the benefits provided by the next best alternative: 1. At this point Ryan Lane is the goto guy with respect to labs. I make this bold statement since i the last 3 months your collegues on have had to deffer to you on every issue that I've raised. 2. Even if I recruit some new volanteers and if they eventualy get commit + labs access, they would still have to chase you down to get anything done. 3. AFAIK Labs is not a stable environment but still very much under development -- which boils down to your request being an unreasonable demand from the community at this point in the lab project life time. Therefore I entreat of you once again -- please check with other ops regarding supporting a modern and robust build workflow is not in WMF best intreset -- it does seem to be the gist of WMF 5 year startegic plan. If there are no longer sufficent resources for supporting long running projects in WMF and we are asked to roll our own we should migrate/outsorce the projects to more dynamic community such as Github or Java.net. That to will have a strategic cost, consider that Despite the growth of WMF dev staff in recent years there is a decline of general interest in MediaWiki software c.f. http://www.google.com/trends/?q=mediawiki -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
