[Foundation-l] Technical aspects of forking (was: 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter)

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Sat Sep 17 11:51:52 UTC 2011


> the foundation's "secret sauce", i.e. the configuration
> files that are not made public, if such thing exists. Then would come
> the whole traffic balancing/caching/optimization settings, which would
> greatly depend on the actual traffic a fork would have.
>
> Strainu

If you control your own servers, vital for a fully functioning fork,
you'll eventually work out the technical details.

However, I'm afraid the "secret sauce" involves interpersonal elements,
including respecting the sensitivities of others on a global basis.

Fred






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