On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian <canan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > So: forks welcome! Any takers? > > > > I would love to fork MediaWiki. Only problem: I'm employed by the WMF. > That would make it a "captive fork" and not actually useful from the > "MediaWiki Foundation" standpoint. > > However, I've *also* got far too many projects on my plate already, so > instead I'll briefly outline what my "dream fork" would look like, in the > hopes that someone else will take this ball and run with it: > > Goal #1: 100% compatibility with existing MediaWiki content. This doesn't > (necessarily) mean that the databases need to be the same, or even that it > needs to use wikitext, just that it has good conversion tools "on day 1". > You seem to be assuming that "fork" === "complete rewrite". That's not necessarily the case, nor is it necessarily even desirable. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
