On 14/09/11 11:39, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
A cool software history project, "Architecture of Open Source Applications," asked MediaWiki for a short history of our software.
If you're soliciting feedback, you should note that putting this into an initial version of initial ideas list is somewhat odd way to attract contributions:
"Drawbacks, decisions we have rued • dependence on MySQL?"
What did you mean here? The word 'rued' sounds relatively rude to me. It is not that we have strict dependency on MySQL (did you see the code?), nor there were too many bitterly regrets (it is somewhat least problematic part of technology stack, imo ;)
Obviously Sumana was referring to the fact that the MediaWiki community collectively ignored an experienced system administrator with a "Wikipedia loving heart" who posted this very compelling argument in favour of PostgreSQL:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/10844
Just think how different the world might have been ;)
-- Tim Starling