On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Exactly. Just because we have people who have no trouble maintaining a WordPress install doesn't mean we should. Time is always limited, and we have to prioritize. Working with a reputable third party that also drives development of the same open source software seems like a perfectly reasonable choice to me in this instance. And BTW - we do get situations where the blog gets a huge spike of traffic every once in a while, e.g. during the SOPA/PIPA protest, so hosting it ourselves is not as effortless as it may seem, without even accounting for customization requests from our communications team, etc. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
