Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Some time back XWiki SAS, the company who started XWiki had a free > online farm on xwiki.com. This farm was closed for new projects a few > months ago after XWiki SAS realized it didn't have the manpower (or > finance) to support it in a professional way. XWiki SAS still has a > professional farm offering but it's not a free farm (see > http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Services/#HHosting) > . > > I'd like to discuss with you the idea of offering a free farm managed > by the xwiki community and under the xwiki.org umbrella. In essence it > means there would be 2 farms available: > * a paying one which is on xwiki.com, for professional needs > * a free one on xwiki.org for universities, individuals or anyone not > requiring guaranteed support/availability at all times > > Here's how it would work: > > * No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user mailing > list. > * No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest Platform/ > XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test for the > xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always try to > make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. > * There will be several members of the community who'll have admin > access on the farm. > * We will reduce admin tasks by offering a simple UI on the farm > itself (restart, see memory stats, see blocking requests, ban a wiki, > etc) > Hi Vincent, sounds like a great idea. My company specializes in SaaS Enablement and Automation software development. We would be glad to donate software and expertize for automating the admin tasks.
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