On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
And good news it is :)
Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ?
It's not that Ori learned about these news by reading Twitter. ;) Tim
Starling got dozens of patches merged in HHVM as well. Both are listed at
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/graphs/contributors, and you can learn
about the rest of the team that has been working on this at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM
See also
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-a…
A better question IMO is: have the FB engineers
contributed any patches
to MW?
I'm not sure why is that a better question, considering that HHVM is
running in Wikimedia servers and the numbers show the very tangible value
it is providing to Wikimedia users. In any case, as Krenair has shown there
are some patches indeed and, well, a Facebook engineer came to work to the
WMF offices with Ori and friends during a month or so last Summer, so you
see their willingness to help us.
For what I have seen, so far this has been an exemplar free software
collaboration with different orgs, timezones, and latitudes involved.
Beyond the code, I bet we have learned something about how Facebook's free
software developers work and vice versa.
I wish Wikimedia is capable of attracting and engaging in similar free
software partnerships, at this level and with these results!
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil