Op 19-10-2013 12:59, Leslie Carr schreef:
Wikitech is our best source of documentation....
Ouch, time for a little documentation sprint?
Something related: While travelling in China I noticed the bad performance of our sites. Would it be a good idea to investigate this (lack of) performance and maybe consider a caching site somewhere in Asia? The latency should be much better than getting is all the way from the USA. http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/GLIF_5-11_World_4k.jpg (from http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/) gives a good idea of connectivity by the way.
(Employee hat) - we are starting to move some of the Asian traffic to a new caching center on the US west coast, which has helped latency.
I guess that's the one in San Francisco? That's already a lot closer than US east coast, but would it be enough?
(Personal hat) - I would love to get an Asian caching center (Hong Kong or Tokyo would be my top 2 choices), but IMHO the biggest barrier to this the time and availability of people resources.
I agree. Would be nice to connect to http://www.ams-ix.hk/ too :-) This is in the strategic plan: "Deploy additional caching centers in key locations to serve growing audiences in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East." [1] so allocating resources to this should be a valid choice.
Maarten
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summar...