I don't see how anyone can say that performance issues are being ignored. Jimbo bought a new server specifically for Wikipedia. Mr. Crocker re-designed the PHP script from the ground up, and Neil has been running different kinds of bots on the news server/software to test it under stressful conditions.
Don't you guys read the mailing list? :)
-- Stephen Gilbert
--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
At 02:29 AM 7/13/02 -0700, maveric149 wrote:
Much is now being done to remedy performance
problems -- so I do believe what
you said is needlessly rude (even if there is a
grain of truth to it).
My experience with coders has been in MUDs. Coders like to make new areas, tweak races and guilds, etc. Performance issues are not nearly as attractive nor is success in dealing with them easily attainable or recognizable to others. Like a MUD we are relying on voluntary coders so, sure, courtesy is necessary.
But so is focus. Right now Wikipedia is like some Ionesco play with a dead body in the room that everyone inexplicably ignores.
Fred Bauder
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