Gregory Maxwell wrote:
My understanding is that Michael Dale was told that Wikimedia would be using Kaltura and that it might consider metavid some day 'in the future'. Perhaps I misunderstood, but this is also appears to be what was claimed in the presentation you gave to Sun Microsystems, and it was consistent with the press release that Kaltura was circulating when I heard this.
That's hopefully inaccurate. The only person in a position to say with any authority what plugins we're planning to run would be me, and I've certainly not said such a thing.
The SVN hosting (which started a few weeks ago) is, as I understand it, a direct results of Kaltura-related complaints that WMF is ignoring requests for help from open projects.
Quite simply, Michael asked me and I said "of course!"
I never, ever would have turned him down at any time he might have asked previously, had he done so.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)