From: jamesmikedupont-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:27:14 GMT Subject: Re: Wikipedia meets git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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 wrote: > 2009/10/21 jamesmikedupont-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org : > >> 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l