[Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Kim Bruning kim at bruning.xs4all.nl
Mon Sep 12 21:14:58 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:59:34PM -0400, Chris Lee wrote:
> I didn't mean what is a fork, or how to fork etc...
> 
> I meant more along the lines of the difference in scope, guidelines. Why did
> they break off?

For starters, they weren't happy with the server maintenance by WMF. They
couldn't get essential components deployed for 2 years or so. 

I'm not sure what the entire set of circumstances was. Someone should probably
do a debrief and postmortem.

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning




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