On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:10 AM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 27 January 2015 at 11:04, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Whether this can apply also to things like Parsoid might be tricky -- that's the biggest Scary Thing since core editing with VE/Flow is going
to
depend on it.
​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...
-- brion