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Rob Church wrote:
On 06/01/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
While we run the Subversion repository
You don't, it's on
leuksman.com, which is Brion's personal server.
svn.wikimedia.org resolves to leuksman through DNS.
This is as much just to isolate it as anything else, though. More people
have SSH access for committing (though with a restricted shell), and the
machine automatically runs the updated parser tests, so I'm leery of
putting that in our core cluster.
If a MediaWiki committer (or someone who gets into one of their
computers or SSH keys) abuses that, they can only really use it try to
hack into my blog.
In theory we could isolate some of that better and go ahead and host it
in the main cluster, or move it elsewhere.
My view is
that we should make this the consistent, official view and
consistently promote and list MediaWiki as a Wikimedia Foundation
project wherever other Wikimedia projects are listed. My hope is that,
in doing so, we will make MediaWiki more prominent and attract more
volunteers to work on it, just as on other Wikimedia Foundation
projects. I also believe that this will help in making MediaWiki
strategy a key part of the Foundation's general project strategy.
Legally, the Foundation has "MediaWiki" as a registered trademark.
There was some controversy over this, primarily in that it was a
surprise to those of us who worked on the software at the time.
The position I took then was that Wikimedia is MediaWiki's number one
_customer_, but not necessarily _owner_.
We never really got around to figuring out a compromise or alternate
ownership of the name that I know of, and now Tim and I are on the
foundation's payroll, so I don't know whether or not we care about
making a distinction like that anymore.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com / brion @
wikimedia.org)
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