Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 11-03-22 01:22 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > [...] > Also I wonder why not go directly from a MediaWiki FileRepo using REST > calls straight into Riak. That's more or less what Russell is building > for us except the backend will be Swift. > [...] I actually asked Artur about that myself, I wa

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/18/11 9:22 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > Take a look at riak too. Wikia's sysadmin Artur (crucially) built file > storage for Wikia using riak and a custom fuse module. This is way past the planning stages -- Russell has been working on this since late last year, along with a handful of WMF pe

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-21 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 19/03/11 00:09, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Russ Nelson (svn account: nelson) is a new committer to core > MediaWiki. Russ is contracting to Wikimedia Foundation to create a > scalable media storage system based on OpenStack's Swift object store, > some Swift middleware custom for Me

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-18 Thread Daniel Friesen
Take a look at riak too. Wikia's sysadmin Artur (crucially) built file storage for Wikia using riak and a custom fuse module. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On 11-03-18 04:09 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Russ Nelson (svn account: nelson) is

[Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-18 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, Russ Nelson (svn account: nelson) is a new committer to core MediaWiki. Russ is contracting to Wikimedia Foundation to create a scalable media storage system based on OpenStack's Swift object store, some Swift middleware custom for MediaWiki, and File and FileRepo-derived classes spe