Thread:Talk:Release Management RFP/NicheWork and Hallo Welt!/Release Management and Visual Editor/reply (7)

You're right. I wasn't aware of anyone talking about MW2.0 in that way. I proposed naming the latest MW release "2.0" but didn't really get much support for that. No one pointed me to MediaWiki 2.0, either. I like my reasoning for 2.0 better.

And thanks for clarifying what you mean. We seem to have a similar understanding of the situation.

In the late 19th century, the buggy whip business was still not a dead end even though the motor car was invented. We don't know yet if this redesigned MW with a new page store will even catch on or give people a reason to start thousands of new wikis.

Predicting a shrinking user base with MW2.0 as the cause is premature when the thing is still just a pipe dream.

I totally agree. The WMF should not put any money into that. They already put money into Parsoid and it seems to be working well.

If this thing happens, it has to be done by people outside the Foundation. If we win this proposal, that is something that Markus and I will look to get funds for outside the Foundation. The Foundation has made it clear that they do not want to be the only organisation funding MW's release management, so I don't see a problem.

I'm not familiar with any information in this area. I'm not saying it doesn't exist or that you aren't right -- I'm just completely ignorant. What is the task that PHP is slow at? How does node.js handle that task better?