I'd like to suggest something Neil has suggested before...

http://semver.org/

- Trevor

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Diederik van Liere <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think that the current version numbering system is confusing, incremental
> version increases from 1.15 to 1.16 to 1.17 to 1.18, etc suggest to most
> people minor changes with no compatibility implications. This is not the
> case with MW. The Chrome version numbering is the other extreme, releasing
> every 6 weeks a major version increment. In the end I think that a version
> system should give an idea how much has changed under the hood. just my 2
> cents.
> Diederik
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > On 08/12/11 05:45, Dan Nessett wrote:
> > > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:54:22 +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 07/12/11 12:34, Dan Nessett wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:15:41 +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
> > >>>> How many servers do you have?
> > >>>
> > >>> 3. It would help to get it down to 2.
> > >>>
> > >>> I assume my comments apply to many other small wikis that use MW as
> > >>> well. Most operate on a shoe string budget.
> > >>
> > >> You should try running MediaWiki on HipHop. See
> > >>
> > >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HipHop
> > >>
> > >> It's not possible to pay developers to rewrite MediaWiki for less than
> > >> what it would cost to buy a server. But maybe getting a particular MW
> > >> installation to run on HipHop with a reduced feature set would be in
> the
> > >> same order of magnitude of cost.
> > >>
> > >> -- Tim Starling
> > >
> > > Are there any production wikis running MW over HipHop?
> >
> > No. There are very few test installations, let alone production
> > installations. But isn't it exciting to break new ground?
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
> >
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