See also: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles#Freedom_and_open_source https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-03-21 6:15 PM, James Salsman wrote: >> >> Is there a list of equipment that WMF uses without viable FLOSS >> alternatives, please? > > > The switches and routers for one; as far as I know, high-end networking > hardware is not available with Libre OSes, nor would the supplier support > one flashed with a non-proprietary OS (as one can do with some mid-range > gear). > > And there is a fuzzy line about being "all-FLOSS". Do you use servers with > only open source BIOS and firmware on all attached hardware? At best, that > severely crimps your options and I'm not sure there exists viable > alternative for /all/ required hardware. > > The *important* thing is that anyone can grab Mediawiki, the dumps, and a > Libre OS supporting LAMP and make the projects run. Beyond that, best > effort to always favour FLOSS when it gets the job done is a solid > philosophical stance that is universally applied. But, like most > principles, it cannot be a suicide pact. We cannot, as a movement, refuse > to get the job done unless we reinvent every proprietary wheel - this way > lies both madness and a tremendous waste of donors' money[1]. > > -- Coren / Marc > > [1] For instance, a common thing that is surfaced is to home-spin software > when the only FLOSS alternatives require either serious customization or > maintenance; we *could* hypothetically hire enough engineers to maintain > every bit of needed software - or even write the bits that don't exist - but > that's not what we *do* (nor should it be). > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
