On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
​Running
Parsoid as a public service (with some soft-ish API limits)
would
allow us to support the oft-cited user who has a
dumb PHP-only box and no
means to install a node service, so that has my support;
Yay!
however, I worry
that WMF might not be the best organisation to provide this if people
wanted it at large for commercial use.
Agreed... but if not us, then who?
/me looks around at folks, wonders if anyone wants to commit to running
such a service as a third-party that we could make super-easy for shared
PHP-host users to use...
This is essentially the
wordpress.com model for things like anti-spam and
analytics, right? Not that I'm saying they would do it, but clearly it's a
workable model at some scale.
Luis
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