Dori wrote:
I don't know if you already have done this, but before starting on any major changes, I would suggest you talk to some of the core developers (Brion, Tim, etc.) to make sure that such changes will not be so detrimental to performance as to be useless.
Enrico is free to "start a forkoff" without the approval of the existing development team and without CVS access, after all MediaWiki is licensed under GPL. I'll do my best to make the main line of MediaWiki development outcompete it in terms of features, stability and performance. Choosing which branch to use for Wikipedia could then be left up to the users and the Board of Trustees.
-- Tim Starling