On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can chime in as a tech operations person (in my official capacity). > Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state. In > ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent > security incident) of having a wordpress instance in our production > environment. #2 is support of the blog from a technical standpoint. We > are currently all oversubscribed with trying to keep the production sites > up and speedy. The blog is low priority for us compared to the wiki's, and > therefore is often neglected. When we hire about 5 more ops people, it may > be more sustainable, but right now, it's not - so it would actually be a > net positive for the Operations team to move the blog onto a dedicated > third party, and will also hopefully prevent any future security incidents. > > Leslie That is a argument for changing the blogging tool/platform, Not changing to non self-hosted environment. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
