niccolo feedback (suggestions, feature request, kudos)

Niccolo's feedback on possible additions to WALID future releases (http://groups.drupal.org/node/133279#comment-494204):

WOW, this is really cool !
thanks for doing this

I am downloading now and will seed for a bit, 411mb ain't so bad

have some suggestions regarding additions, options, observations;

1. Source Management: Redmine + Git, shouldn't clash, an example is Open Scholar https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/openscholar
2. Search: Apache Solr + Nutch : for search and indexing, should work with your set-up no worries
3. Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy : avoids PHP 5.3 errors which can be distracting and confusing, hard to know what is a problem warning or not?
4. MariaDB vs MySQL http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql
5. Jenson integration server http://greenbeedigital.com.au/content/discovering-jenkins-and-increasing...
6. MongoDB: http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/mongodb-humongous-drupal and http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/practical-mongodb-and-drupal

for reference and pre-loading platforms into Aegir check-out the Omega8cc Octopus (Aegir satellite http://drupal.org/project/octopus ) and Baraccuda (Aegir master http://drupal.org/project/barracuda) scripts... lots of amazing fine-tuning, configuration, pre-loading and maintenance issues

further out of scope are interesting servers applications;

1. TileStream (TileMill server) http://support.mapbox.com/kb/tilestream/using-tilestream-with-drupal or http://chicago2011.drupal.org/conference/bof/tilemill-tilestream-and-drupal
2. Dataverse: a data hosting and citation system, from the same group as Open Scholar from Harvard, has some integration points http://thedata.org/book/install-software

What do you think?
Does your feature request work on WALID? Have you tried it?

I'm happy to include and maintain value-added, non-conflicting components to WALID.