Hi! > Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what I can gather: Total > spending was > $1.7 million less than budgeted. Tech spending was $1.7 million > less than > budgeted. And $1.7 million was sitting in the bank accounts at the > end of > the fiscal year.
We did not spend on hardware, because, well, I explained already in some other email. We did not reallocate the money to hire lots of developers because we didn't know how the hardware spending will look like. > The solution to not being able to afford "proper .com-level > salaries" is to > offer people nothing? We're not competitive on the job market. So, if we don't get qualified engineers willing to work for less, what should we do - hire less qualified ones? > I'll fix the dumps for minimum wage plus daycare for my two kids. ;-) Are you for these conditions for other projects too? > I don't know about that. It's a pretty cool problem, it's just a > difficult > one to solve. Or maybe it's a cool problem because it's difficult > to solve. I find it very boring problem myself. Probably thats because I'm spoiled by really cool problems at work, or maybe somewhat cooler problems at Wikimedia ;-) > It would certainly help. The problem with the dumps is that they're > so > huge. They're small. :) And yes, I know what is the problem with dumps :-) > Not being able to test solutions on a system just as huge is a > serious constraint. Problems are known well enough to create quite some work. Resolve 10 "what ifs" and you're nearly done. > Plus you have to remember that the WMF's particular > installation is not the common one. Agreed. > There's probably enough information out > there to pretty much replicate it, but that's another serious > constraint. > I'm certainly not willing to deal with those unnecessary constraints. OK! > It was the existence of the history dumps that enabled Judd and I to > find > the oversighted SlimVirgin edits. That encourages production of dumps, right? :) > Once again, I've heard that for three years now, so forgive me for not > believing it until I see it. OK! Domas _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l