On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:35:55PM -0600, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Well, I was thinking about people running the Wikipedia code (other than Wikipedia itself). They will have MySQL3 databases that require the reverse_timestamp hack - will we continue to keep this cruft in the Wikipedia code to support those people who don't want to migrate their databases, or will just clean it up and tell them to migrate their database, or stay with the old code (which is perfectly functionable, mostly).
I, personally, am not the least bit interested in making the wikipedia code easy to use for others. It's GPL, and open, so others can do with it what they like, but my efforts will be 100% toward making Wikipedia work, and nothing else. If that inconveniences others who might have chosen to use the code, well, that's was their choice.
I do, on the other hand, concede that the ability for others to install and use the code does help the code evolve; the more eyeballs on it, the better. So I am willing to make a few concessions in that direction, but only insofar as they serve the primary goal, which is Wikipedia.
Fair enough. Big smileys from me. :)