On 14/09/11 11:39, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > >> A cool software history project, "Architecture of Open Source >> Applications," asked MediaWiki for a short history of our >> software. > > If you're soliciting feedback, you should note that putting this > into an initial version of initial ideas list is somewhat odd way > to attract contributions: > > "Drawbacks, decisions we have rued • dependence on MySQL?" > > What did you mean here? The word 'rued' sounds relatively rude to > me. It is not that we have strict dependency on MySQL (did you see > the code?), nor there were too many bitterly regrets (it is > somewhat least problematic part of technology stack, imo ;)
Obviously Sumana was referring to the fact that the MediaWiki community collectively ignored an experienced system administrator with a "Wikipedia loving heart" who posted this very compelling argument in favour of PostgreSQL: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10844> Just think how different the world might have been ;) -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
