+1 to everything Brian said.
-Chad
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 3:38 AM Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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