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(a)wikimedia.org>
2010/10/27 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>om>:
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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