On 02/25/2013 05:30 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Why start from scratch again? Why not just migrate the
current
Toolserver setup to the WMF cloud infrastructure?
There are a number of obstacles to this, not least of which is the usage
of Solaris and other non-Free tools in the infrastructure.
But, more to the point, we have the opportunity to start with a clean
slate and plan ahead; something which River and Daniel never had the
chance to do. This allows us to reexamine the context today and provide
for a more robust environment from its inception -- which is not
feasible on an environment which is in use and is depended upon by
dozens of maintainers.
All of that said, much of the dev-visible architecture is designed to be
as close to the toolserver's as possible to ease transition. I don't
believe there are any gratuitous changes; the few differences to be
found are meant to bring immediate tangible benefits to the tool
maintainers.
-- Marc