Hello,
While I recognise that most of us use free software as much as we can, one element that haven't been brought up in this thread yet is the matter of time. Some FLOSS solution simply take more time than proprietary ones, and I know for a fact that the tech team have soooo much things to do that we should a) give them a break if they investigate a matter properly (which they seem to have done here) and decide that a proprietary solution will have to do for now, and b) try to help them as much as we can, by solving problems they haven't time to solve themselves. Let's therefore close this thread and move on to more important things.
Best wishes,
Lennart
2010/10/27 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
2010/10/27 Strainu strainu10@gmail.com:
Let's not get carried away here. I am always interested to seeing alternatives to the tools I use myself and I'm willing to dig through some not-so-clear notes or whatever to find information, if that spares me some testing time. That was the sole reason I insisted for the release of the information.
As I mentioned further upthread, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS_Exchange is intended as a public home for documentation. I'd love to see subpages in future for experiences of individual Wikimedia organizations with specific software, including go-or-no-go decisions on FLOSS solutions. We'll grow & develop this stuff as we find time. Feel free to capture some of the information from this thread on that page or otherwise help make it more useful.
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