Also HHVM and Blazegraph. -- Brian
On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Kunal Mehta <lego...@debian.org> wrote: > On 5/29/21 5:59 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> It sounds like phabricator upstream is going away: >> https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_ >> winding_down_operations/ <https://admin.phacility.com/p >> hame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/> >> > > On the general topic, it's worrying to me this is the third major > platform/software that Wikimedia relies on that is gone, with little > notice. OTRS went EOL 2 days before Christmas last year[1] and Freenode > well, switched hands and imploded. > > In all 3 cases though it's been pretty clear beforehand that something was > wrong or unsustainable. OTRS didn't release their community edition on > time[2], Freenode has had questionable governance for a while now, the > "Freenode Limited" company was created in 2017, and Phabricator/Phacility > has been maintained by a single person (who's done great work, no doubt) in > a way that did not really encourage upstream contributions to build a > sustainable community of contributors (my impression, correct me if I'm > wrong). > > And with COVID-19, plenty of IRL businesses/shops/etc. have gone under or > just closed down so it's unsurprising that we're seeing the effect in > tech/FOSS too. > > I think it would be a good idea if we can check in on our upstreams[2], > have sustainable governance, identifying if they assistance/support, and > then figuring out how to provide what's needed. > > To start with, I think we have a unique opportunity to influence the > governance of Libera Chat given they're just starting off and appear to be > interested in getting our feedback[3]. > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275294 > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Libera_Chat_governance > > -- Legoktm > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists > .wikimedia.org/ >
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