On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Terry Chay <tc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Related is the fact that we seem to have a lot of PHP web dev > expertise (for some reason) and Gerrit went from Python (serviceable) to Java > (totally opaque). Apologies to those of you at the WMF who lurv themselves > some Java… all two of you… and one of you is probably the guy who wrote the > "case against" >
The more I've thought about it, the less that I feel "language it's written in" really matters at all. The number of people contributing upstream is always going to be relatively small, and as long as those who /want/ to contribute upstream are comfortable with it, it could be written in Cobol for all I care. It kinda struck me the other day when the subject of bug-tracking tools came up again. Had we been using $SOME_OTHER_PRODUCT and people were advocating switching to Bugzilla, I'm sure people would complain "omg, it's Perl--we can't contribute upstream." But in reality, how many people *have* contributed upstream to Bugzilla? Most people file bugs in our tracker and they get re-filed upstream, which is perfectly fine as long as there's an upstream who responds, which in this case there is. I think the choice of platform matters when we're talking about "ease of installation/upgrading" to some degree so we don't make the ops angry, but that's a total non-issue with Gerrit because installation/uprgrades are very very easy :) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
