Petr, Thanks for bringing this up.
I have some opinions on this, but I -- like many WMF engineering staff -- have today as a holiday (Presidents' Day). Can this decision wait until tomorrow? best, -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/20/2012 07:22 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Wmf ops probably don't, but thanks to labs we could probably create a new > infrastructure managed by community developers, where we could host the > sites / documentation and repository for code all under one wmf domain like > development.wikimedia.org/wiki etc. I think we could host the source code > using the wikimedia git, but problem is with repository of installation > packages to download and webserver to host the related wiki / site on, I > think either labs could be perfect for this, or some wiki dedicated to > developers > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> În data de 20 februarie 2012, 12:55, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> a >> scris: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> we have had some discussion with other devs of huggle and I have a >>> question, what is the best location to host wikimedia related projects? >>> Documentation / web pages (preferably a wiki), I guess most suitable is >> mww >>> but that one should be for mediawiki only or not? I am talking about >>> projects like awb, pywikipediabot, dotnetwikibot, bots, labs and many >>> others. I think we should either create a category for these at mww or >>> maybe create a new wiki just for various software projects and related >>> documentation? I would rather prefer first option for now, because it's >> not >>> so hard to maintain and I don't think there is really a need to open >> whole >>> new wiki just for documentation and various wikimedia projects, like labs >>> etc. Second question is where to host source code and files? Some >> projects >>> are using 3rd providers, however there is an idea to move huggle >> repository >>> to wikimedia git after it's set up, it would be good to have all sources >> on >>> one place so that it's easier to find various projects people might be >>> interested in. >> >> I'm guessing each project should answer this according to it's own >> size and needs. One-size-fits-all answers probably don't exist. >> >> We're hosting code specific to ro.wp on Google Code, toghether with >> some OSM code. Given the poor experience I've had with >> planet.wikimedia.org in Romanian, I don't think that moving all the >> code to Wikipedia is such a good idea. 3rd party project hosting >> providers do their best to offer as many features as possible in a >> very simple way. The WMF OPS team is not made for that. >> >> Strainu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
