Hey, > Again, I think the best route to go here is to try and gather some real > > data from the users of MediaWiki instead of trying to come to a decision > > on a mailing list that is populated mostly with developers. > > > > Seems you've volunteered for the job! Please let us know when you have some > data to share with the rest of the group. > > In the meantime, please don't tell people that they can't share their > professional opinions and experiences with the limitations and problems of > old-fashioned shared hosting and the promises of modern VPS-based hosting. > That's valuable input, too. >
Brion, I appreciate your and others input, and am sure the same is true for Mark. One the one side it would be convenient to not support a certain group of users, on the other this means we no longer support that group of users. It is quite clear there are people that simply do not care about supporting these users, and thus prefer dropping the support, and people that want to retain this support. I'm not using any shared hosting and am not really a user of MW to begin with, so it does not matter all that much to me personally. However as an involved developer I think we should not ignore the arguments on either side. Seems you've volunteered for the job! Please let us know when you have some > data to share with the rest of the group. > If the proposal here is to no longer support these users, then it seems logical to make analysis of the impact of such a change a requirement for the change to happen. Making it a requirement for the change to not happen is obviously appealing to people on one side of the argument and definitely not to those on the other. Ignoring preference there, it seems to not be the most logical approach. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
