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S 5/3 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha1 undergoing testing. Reviewing feature broken, according to Brion.
Template images not all back yet; see list.
Search update: C# component being integrated with Lucene search.
Performance: LDC mentions an order of magnitude improvement waiting to happen from code rewriting alone; Magnus revisits Timwi's partially-completed work on a Bison-based parser. Tim notes poor tight-loop performance in interpreted langs.
S 5/7 RC bot for enrc moved to a wikimedia irc server: irc.wikimedia.org; discussion underway about how freenode could be more friendly to our bot-uses.
M 5/9 brion installs curl; 20 machines arrive (some were racked up Fri) and Chad networks them.
T 5/10 "Acute growing pains," caused by peaks of 2000 hits/sec and [reaching the 'maximum connections' limit on our memory-cache cloud, kill the image server .
May, again in June Jwales asks for mid-term hosting suggestions on the -tech mailing list. Responses from many people, asking for backups and read-only fallbacks among other things.
