On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
security holes. At least we will be able to convert to
Hack eventually.
This is a very clean-cut case of vendor lock-in though, and if Facebook
decides to switch their code base to something shinier, we'll be deep in
trouble.
I actually predicted this and wrote up my suggestions here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018/Writing_Tips…
I will *not* be making this my position statement at the dev summit -- only
one per person, so many positions to take, this one didn't make the cut! --
but I would like to strongly encourage someone to submit a position
statement relating to this issue (could be any of max's three positions) to
the dev summit. I think it is an important issue for our foundation and
community to discuss; certainly very relevant to the next 15 years of the
project.
--scott