On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Mike Linksvayer <m...@gondwanaland.com>: > > Neeru should speak up on disposition of the project, but IMO: > > * Folding into a WMF project would be by far the best outcome, whatever > > changes that would ential > > Hm, AcaWiki without SMW? That seems like it would greatly diminish the > value of the resource. > > SMW is still a big heap of "untrusted code" from our perspective that > we're not prepared to host on our main cluster yet, and our > virtualized cluster for prototype sites is still pretty fragile. We're > hoping to greatly expand it into a proper "labs" infrastructure > through this calendar year, which would prepare us to host projects > like AcaWiki with relative ease. > Who is in charge the virtualized cluster work? We can be guinea pigs ;) > > My recommendation would be to go with an SMW hosting provider for now, > to help grow and nurture the wiki, and to consider a WMF migration > towards end-of-2011. Mike, let me know if you want us to help with the > hosting costs. IMO AcaWiki needs to get the tools that AcaWiki needs > first and foremost, and shouldn't be constrained by WMF hosting > parameters at this point in its development. > Cool, how would helping with the hosting costs work? It would be great to just avoid it and move right into virtualization :) great! Cheers Jon > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > -- Jon Phillips http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)
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