Hi Reid, thanks for the detailed discussion. Our best course of action is to transition to the virtualized setup at wikimedia foundation to minimize steps.
There is no reason to transition twice if we can move to WMF infrastructure soon. There is no burning fire on CC hosting.
However, I need to talk more with our wikimedia foundation brethren about this.
Lets get more information before making more decisions on this one.
Please don't create any infrastructure right now. Our ideal solution is to of course keep SMW and move directly to WMF virtualization container and work through that with them. We already moved our bug tracking to wikimedia bugzilla, so that is all on track.
I have to go to San Francisco next week so Danese, Brion and Erik, can I get a slot in relevant schedules to move this forward faster :) Ping me offlist for those detalis.
Thanks Reid for keeping on this! All, I am moving our next few month fabricatorz/acawiki plan to the bug tracker today/tomorrow. Apologies for too many emails ;) (which is a good thing, really)
Jon