Indeed. Please don't read into me speaking with Brion. It was just idle chit-chat over lunch which ended with me saying something about bringing it up on-list. Obviously any decisions on such an issue need to be widely discussed and advertised.
-Chad On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Last I checked I'm making recommendations in an early stage of discussion > on an open mailing list, not making decisions for everybody by myself. > > -- brion > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@nichework.com > >wrote: > > > On 10/01/2013 09:25 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > > We've been moving away from being friendly to old-style shared-hosting > > > servers for some time with key features that people are going to expect > > to > > > replicate on their MediaWikis in the future... > > > > Fair enough. > > > > If WMF were the only user of MW, you could freely decide to take MW it > > whatever direction you choose. But doing that now without considering > > the needs of other MW users isn't responsible. > > > > Not everyone needs to run Wikipedia and it is a worthwhile effort to > > make sure MediaWiki remains scalable down to the shared-hosting level. > > > > On 10/01/2013 09:56 AM, Chad wrote: > > > I'd like to echo everything Brion said here. I think we were just > > > talking about this last week or the week before, right? > > > > You and Brion talked about this? I don't recall any conversation on > > wikitech-l about abandoning support for the "little guy". > > > > Before a decision like this is made (and I would like people like David > > Gerard of RationalWiki to continue to weigh in, not just WMF employees), > > I would like to get some actual statistics on the number of shared > > hosting users. How are they running their sites? Do larger wikis have > > the time and the budget to support this sort of move? > > > > Perhaps WMF should just fork off their own "enterprise" branch of MW? > > > > It would be good to discuss this on mediawiki-l, too. > > > > -- > > Mark A. Hershberger > > NicheWork LLC > > 717-271-1084 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
