On 12 August 2011 12:44, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:55 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And I ask all this knowing that we don't have the paid tech resources >> to look into it - tech is a huge chunk of the WMF budget and we're >> still flat-out just keeping the lights on. But I do think it needs >> serious consideration fo r long-term preservation of all this work. > This is part of WMF's purpose, actually, so I'll disagree on that point. > That's why for instance we insist on using so much open source -- we *want* > everything we do to be able to be reused or rebuilt independently of us. I'm speaking of making it happen, not whether it's an acknowledged need, which I know it is :-) It's an obvious Right Thing. But we have X dollars to do everything with, so more to this means less to somewhere else. And this is a variety of technical debt, and tends to get put in an eternal to-do list with the rest of the technical debt. So it would need someone actively pushing it. I'm not even absolutely sure myself it's a priority item that someone should take up as a cause. I do think the communities need reminding of it from time to time, however. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
