On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Nick Reinking wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:44:45 -0500 From: Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Chat about Wikipedia performance?
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:45:18PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
The code issue is mostly a matter of focus: one or two developers is probably sufficient to keep the codebase up to date, but neither Brion nor I are focused on that right now.
So while Brion has issued a call for coders, that could be answered in other ways: for example, if a good admin stepped up to take some of admin tasks Brion is currently swamped with, he might be more free to code (assuming he's interested, which is not a given either). I've chosen to focus more on long-term goals because like Brion I was expecting hardware to bail us out in the short term. If that's going to be delayed, then I can put off things like testing file systems and focus on caching and tuning.
I'm certainly willing to help out here. I'm not in SoCal, but I should be able to help out with most administrivial tasks. I'm going to be able to help out a much more with tuning at a file system/OS/Apache level than I will be at a PHP/SQL level.
Since I've just joined on to the tech list, might as well introduce myself in the tech context. My specialty is administration of routers and WANs, and along the way I've come to know general Linux quite well, HTML & HTTP, Apache, Perl & CGI, & MySQL. A few other things that I don't think would be very relevant, but you never know, would be DNS (Bind, of course), Sendmail, and TCP/IP details. The only thing holding me back from being a useful coder so far seems to be that I don't know beans about PHP, but I could certainly be similarly helpful in that "relief pitcher" kind of way.