On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Erik Moeller
<erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
2011/4/3 Mike Linksvayer <ml@gondwanaland.com>:
> Neeru should speak up on disposition of the project, but IMO:
> * Folding into a WMF project would be by far the best outcome, whatever
> changes that would ential
Hm, AcaWiki without SMW? That seems like it would greatly diminish the
value of the resource.
SMW is still a big heap of "untrusted code" from our perspective that
we're not prepared to host on our main cluster yet, and our
virtualized cluster for prototype sites is still pretty fragile. We're
hoping to greatly expand it into a proper "labs" infrastructure
through this calendar year, which would prepare us to host projects
like AcaWiki with relative ease.
Who is in charge the virtualized cluster work? We can be guinea pigs ;)
My recommendation would be to go with an SMW hosting provider for now,
to help grow and nurture the wiki, and to consider a WMF migration
towards end-of-2011. Mike, let me know if you want us to help with the
hosting costs. IMO AcaWiki needs to get the tools that AcaWiki needs
first and foremost, and shouldn't be constrained by WMF hosting
parameters at this point in its development.
Cool, how would helping with the hosting costs work? It would be great to just avoid it and move right into virtualization :) great!
Cheers
Jon
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