There is also one of the search systems migrating to non O/S from memory... elastic?
On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 11:11 am Brian Wolff, <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also HHVM and Blazegraph. > > -- > Brian > > On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Kunal Mehta <lego...@debian.org> wrote: > >> On 5/29/21 5:59 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> >>> It sounds like phabricator upstream is going away: >>> https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/ >>> < >>> https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/ >>> > >>> >> >> On the general topic, it's worrying to me this is the third major >> platform/software that Wikimedia relies on that is gone, with little >> notice. OTRS went EOL 2 days before Christmas last year[1] and Freenode >> well, switched hands and imploded. >> >> In all 3 cases though it's been pretty clear beforehand that something >> was wrong or unsustainable. OTRS didn't release their community edition on >> time[2], Freenode has had questionable governance for a while now, the >> "Freenode Limited" company was created in 2017, and Phabricator/Phacility >> has been maintained by a single person (who's done great work, no doubt) in >> a way that did not really encourage upstream contributions to build a >> sustainable community of contributors (my impression, correct me if I'm >> wrong). >> >> And with COVID-19, plenty of IRL businesses/shops/etc. have gone under or >> just closed down so it's unsurprising that we're seeing the effect in >> tech/FOSS too. >> >> I think it would be a good idea if we can check in on our upstreams[2], >> have sustainable governance, identifying if they assistance/support, and >> then figuring out how to provide what's needed. >> >> To start with, I think we have a unique opportunity to influence the >> governance of Libera Chat given they're just starting off and appear to be >> interested in getting our feedback[3]. >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275294 >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects >> [3] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Libera_Chat_governance >> >> -- Legoktm >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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