[Foundation-l] Official Positions

[Brion Vibber]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> In addition, there are a number of positions where it would be
> extremely useful to the Foundation to have a key person the Board can
> maintain contact with, and as such, I would like to appoint the
> following people, subject to them being happy with these positions:
>
> Chief Technical Officer (servers and development): Brion Vibber

In case anybody was wondering otherwise, I do humbly accept. :)

Right now I'm engaged primarily in cleaning up MediaWiki 1.5 and
readying it for release and use on our servers. Performance testing, bug
fixes, final schema tweaks, and of course confirming that the upgrader
system works.

Actually taking the new system live will depend on a) it being ready ;)
and b) the database servers having sufficient space to work in. Right
now our master server Ariel is running very close to full; JeLuF and
others on the team are doing excellent work on tweaking things up and
setting up the external bulk text storage so we'll have room to
manipulate the data tables.

Probably we'll take a weekend to run conversions, a week or two from
now. It's not totally clear yet whether we'll have to take everything to
read-only during conversion, or if we'll be able to do a wiki at a time
without disruption.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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