OK Inserted this to hackaton topics as well... On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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