On March 28, 2006 3:20 PM Daniel Kinzler wrote:
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]> would be great! Please talk to DaB about this, he's our contact to the
e.V. My idea would be to have separate boxes for a)
public, web-based
tools, and b) another one for running massive queries on.
Did you say web-based tools like kvalebergs (still external) service? And
massive queries like our coordinate parser? That sounds interesting!
[...]
I'm giving
_one_ weeks time to the colleagues here to solve the
technical problem of mirroring. To my humble point of view this is
still finally an organisational problem...
Uh, what?! I'm sympathetic to your complains in general, but WTF?! You
are *giving* us one week? Or what? You know, there's no *right* to be
able to use the toolserver, or to have it available at all. If you don't
like it, help to fix it, or go away.
Ok; that answer came fast... Sorry, I should have written "I'm giving _me_
one weeks time..." simply because the team project has to come to an end
(unless e.V. itself does sponsor programmer teams :->).
Btw: both major issues I described above are based on
technical
problems. Yes, they can be overcome, but it's not simple. It takes time
and effort, which someone will have to donate. How about you?
Believe me, it's several boxes worth what we invested in cash in this
Wikipoint-db - and don't mention time. Our know-how lies in geoinformation
processing, so I thought it's there where our contribution would be most
efficient.
I'm aware that this is a technical problem - you actually made me curious
about replication - but to me it's still seems to be also an organisational
issue because there are'nt more admins to help you two out. If Wikipedia
want's to become mature and if I would be e.V. I would put cracks like you
on the pay roll.
-- Stefan