On Jan 16, 2015 5:14 PM, "Ryan Lane" <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
bjor...@wikimedia.org
> > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What you're forgetting is that WMF abandoned MediaWiki as an Open
Source
> > > project quite a while ago (at least 2 years ago).
> >
> >
> > {{citation needed}}
> >
>
> There was a WMF engineering meeting where it was announced internally. I
> was the only one that spoke against it. I can't give a citation to it
> because it was never announced outside of WMF, but soon after that third
> party support was moved to a grant funded org, which is the current status
> quo.
>
> Don't want to air dirty laundry, but you asked ;).
>
> - Ryan
>The mw release whatever its called is hardly at the centre of mediawiki the open source project. They do regular releases - which is great but that's essentially all they do (which is fine, that is their function). They arent handling very much third party support (eg on irc) or doing much in way of third party dev work or even planning. But yet these things still happen. When it does happen its usually volunteers but also some wmf staff (perhaps in a volunteer capacity) who do them. MediaWiki as an open source project may be in tough times in many ways, but it is not dead (yet). --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
