On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:27 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 January 2015 at 16:09, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So what we might end up with: > > - Wikimedia using the SOA MediaWiki with split components maintained by > > staff and the Wikimedia volunteers devs. Code which is of no use for > > the cluster is dropped which would surely ease maintainability. We can > > then reduce MediaWiki to a very thin middleware and eventually rewrite > > whatever few code is left. > > - The old MediaWiki PHP based is forked and given to the community to > > maintain. WMF is no more involved in it and the PHP-only project live > > it's on life. That project could be made to remove a lot of the rather > > complicated code that suits mostly Wikimedia, making MediaWiki simpler > > and easier to adjust for small installations. > > So, is it time to fork both intent? I think so. > > > > This is not a great idea because it makes WMF wikis unforkable in > practical terms. The data is worthless without being able to run an > instance of the software. This will functionally proprietise all WMF > wikis, whatever the licence statement. > > So far all of the new services are open source. If you want to work on forking Wikimedia projects you can even start a Labs project to work on it. I don't think this is a concern here. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
