[Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Ok,
I have started a google group called mediawiki-vcs



              http://groups.google.com/group/mediawiki-vcs

We should just move the discussion there.
Additionaly, I did not name it git, but vcs, for the reason that we
should support multiple backends via a plugin. I am interested in
using git because i think git is great, but others should be free to
use cvs if they feel it is needed.

mike


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:36 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/21 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>:
>
>> most people are working on very small subsets of the data. Very few
>> people will want to have all the data, think about getting all the
>> versions from all the git repos, it would be the same.
>> My idea is for smaller chapters who want to get started easily, or
>> towns, regions to host their own branches of relevant data.
>> Given a world full of such servers, the sum would be great but the
>> individual branches needed at one time would be small.
>
>
> A distributed backend is a nice idea anyway - imagine a meteor hitting
> the Florida data centres ...
>
> And there are third-party users who could benefit from a highly
> distributed backend, such as Wikileaks.
>
> This thread should probably move to mediawiki-l ...
>
>
> - d.
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