The controversy is 95% of spending, including 90% of staff, is on things with no relation to wikipeida that few care about, with exponentially growing costs, which they imply is needed to keep the wiki alive despite how cheap it actually is to run.
There are things to criticize wmf spending on, but the above is absolute bullshit. It is simply not true that "95% of spending, including 90% of staff, is on things with no relation to wikipeida".
Hosting does not include software development. It does not include sysadmins. I'm not sure if it even includes data center personel (Wikipedia owns its own servers. That means you have to hire people to plug them in. Amazon isnt doing it for you).
Software doesn't write itself, and improving the software for Wikipedia is where the lion-share of the budget is going.
That doesn't even get into less technical roles like legal or community outreach, which are very much spending for wikipedia.
Hosting is a small portion of the budget because its by far the cheapest part of running a major website. In many ways its also the easiest part to make cheap, simply by not using AWS.
I am not a python guy so I did not know this person nor his framework.
But the tone of this message from his peers and the fact that this man kept working and contributing to open source (and software in general) until the end is deserving of more than 0 comments on hn.
My condolences to the family, friends and best of luck to the rest of the team that is working on (t)his framework.
Quake 1/Quakeworld gladly live on! I'm a big fan for many years so I always encourage anybody to try it. [0] Still one of the best FPS ever built imho.
The community [1] keeps on improving the game and infrastructure and we can now even spectate games straight through the browser without having to download anything. [2]
Fixed.
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