The RFC doesn't seem to have gotten much interest (only a burst of edits from Krinkle in August and then it died). But interesting nonetheless.
The one thing I do know is that if this were to be implemented, it would probably be pretty complex. It would have to support at least a couple of different push methods (I'd imagine IRC would be one of them for backwards compatibility) and would have to be efficient enough to handle the load of receiving and sending Wikipedia's recent changes. Like Petr said, the client would probably be in C++ or some other language that supports true multithreading and is efficient enough. At that point, it might as well be its own product, i.e., a generic push notification server similar to Amazon's SNS. I feel like such a project would take an insane amount of resources to develop. Between design, coding, and testing, we'd be lucky to see it implemented by MW 1.25 ;) Nonetheless, it sounds like a fun project, and if some developers would be interested in putting together a generic C++ push notification server, I'd be happy to help out. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
