On 16 January 2015 at 16:09, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
So what we might end up with:
- Wikimedia using the SOA MediaWiki with split components maintained by
staff and the Wikimedia volunteers devs. Code which is of no use for
the cluster is dropped which would surely ease maintainability. We can
then reduce MediaWiki to a very thin middleware and eventually rewrite
whatever few code is left.
- The old MediaWiki PHP based is forked and given to the community to
maintain. WMF is no more involved in it and the PHP-only project live
it's on life. That project could be made to remove a lot of the rather
complicated code that suits mostly Wikimedia, making MediaWiki simpler
and easier to adjust for small installations.
So, is it time to fork both intent? I think so.
This is not a great idea because it makes WMF wikis unforkable in
practical terms. The data is worthless without being able to run an
instance of the software. This will functionally proprietise all WMF
wikis, whatever the licence statement.
- d.