>> This is all a fantastic idea. Distributing Wikipedia in a fashion >> similar to git will make it a lot easier to use in areas where >> Internet connections are not so common. > >It always surprises me when people express enthusiasm for >this kind of idea, since my instinct assumption is the exact >opposite: that this couldn't possibly be feasible or practical. > >Just out of curiosity, how large are the git-managed projects >that you have successfully handled this way? Number of files, >lines of code, bytes or commits per day? Did you ever run into >a software project where a fully decentralized git solution was >impractical, e.g. because pulling in the daily updates took >more than an hour on your available bandwidth?
I can't say that I've handled an large git-managed projects this way, but I am to understand that this is the very thing for which git was designed. Given this I would hope that a git like model would be good for decentralized editing. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
