On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)werdn.us> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, K. Peachey
<p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Currently
all data, including private data, is replicated to the
toolserver. We could not do this with a third-party server.
My understanding is
that the the toolserver(/s) are owned by the
german chapter and not by wikimedia directly so why is private data
being replicated onto them?
Because it was chosen as the best technical solution. Is there a
specific problem with private data being on the toolserver? If so,
what?
I'd say the added worries about security and access approval are a
"problem" partially bundled up with that, even if they can be worked
around.
Logistically it would be nice to have a means of providing an
exclusively public data replica for purposes such as research, though
I can certainly see how that could get technically messy.
-Robert Rohde