Sorry I forgot to copy this list.
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From: *James Salsman* <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Subject: Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared
hosting)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bawolff@gmail.com');>> wrote:
If you want to get Dispenser his hard disk space, you
should take it
up with the labs people, or at the very least some thread where it
would be on-topic.
The labs people are so understaffed that two extremely important anti-spam
bots recently had to be taken offline for much longer than in recent years.
I propose Foundation management allocate the necessary resources and
recommend the hiring of sufficient personnel and purchasing of sufficient,
non NSA-compatible (i.e., discount and homebrew style) equipment
to properly support both existing infrastructural bots and similar projects
such as Dispenser's reflinks cache.
I would also like to propose that the Foundation oppose the TPP provisions
deleterious to our interests, and that this position be endorsed on the
Public Policy list.
Then by definition it wouldn't be a third-party
spam framework if WMF
was running it.
I am not proposing that the WMF take the bots over, just meet their
necessary service level requirements.
Sincerely,
Jim