On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@nichework.com > >wrote: > > > On 10/01/2013 07:44 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > > > The file cache is barely maintained and I am not sure whether anyone > > > is still relying on it. We should probably remove that feature > > > entirely and instruct people to setup a real frontend cache instead. > > > > While this is a nice thought, it is completely unreasonable for the > > majority of wikis out there who use shared hosting. > > > > We should find a way to maintain these bits that WMF doesn't use. > > > > We've been moving away from being friendly to old-style shared-hosting > servers for some time with key features that people are going to expect to > replicate on their MediaWikis in the future... > > * Lua templates > * VE and Parsoid > * Math next-generation version migrating to using a web service instead of > a shell-out > * ??? > > I'd recommend starting to deprecate support for 'shared PHP web host' > environments altogether in favor of either custom installations or virtual > machines -- VMs are both more flexible and easier to install. > > That might not be something we can do immediately, but we should strongly > think about planning that way for the future. > > I'd like to echo everything Brion said here. I think we were just talking about this last week or the week before, right? -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
