On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org wrote:
I can chime in as a tech operations person (in my official capacity). Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state. In ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent security incident) of having a wordpress instance in our production environment. #2 is support of the blog from a technical standpoint. We are currently all oversubscribed with trying to keep the production sites up and speedy. The blog is low priority for us compared to the wiki's, and therefore is often neglected. When we hire about 5 more ops people, it may be more sustainable, but right now, it's not - so it would actually be a net positive for the Operations team to move the blog onto a dedicated third party, and will also hopefully prevent any future security incidents.
Leslie
That is a argument for changing the blogging tool/platform, Not changing to non self-hosted environment.