On 20/09/17 12:19, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Sep 19, 2017 9:45 PM, "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Facebook have been inconsistent with HHVM, and have made it clear that they don't intend to cater to our needs.
I'm curious: is this conclusion based on your recent meeting with them, or on past behavior? Their recent announcement had a lot of "we know we haven't been great, but we promise to change" stuff in it ("reinvest in open source") and I'm curious to know if they enumerated concrete steps they planned to take, or whether even in your most recent meeting with them they failed to show actual interest.
"Have been inconsistent" refers to their past behaviour. "Don't intend to cater" refers to the meeting and announcement.
According to people on the ops team who have worked with them recently, they stopped working on the open source product altogether. They stopped responding to bug reports. By "reinvest in open source" they are apologising for that and promising to start reading their bug mail again. This was discussed in the meeting.
-- Tim Starling