On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
"C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code
base
from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty
slow,
too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004
I assume Purodha might have referred to Levitation (http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation; current state and links to spawns at https://workflowy.com/s/jJtGnQ8p3W).
Also, lots of git-related discussion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_pr...