Hello!

As you might know, Wikimedia Foundation is building a cloud-based infrastructure (Labs/Tool Labs) that - in the long run - will be a replacement for the toolserver. Don't worry! The toolserver will be not just be switched off. WMF and WMDE would like to support you as much as possible when it comes to migrating tools. You can see the current status of features on [1]. We will publish a road map giving more details and dates in the second half of this month.

Tool Labs is not ready yet right now, but it will be - most probably in the months, partly in the weeks to come. (Though we know that unpredictable stuff can happen and there are open questions left.)

Looking at the List of Tools [2], I would like to thank all tool maintainers that have contributed to gathering information about tools currently running on the toolserver. Thanks a lot to early adopters, too, who are helping to test Tool Labs!

Quite a lot of tools that I added based on information in jira and tswiki are still lacking information on dependencies and licenses. I am especially intrigued about the number of non-free tools on the toolserver because Labs, Tool Labs, the Bots/webservices project all accept software under OSI-approved licenses only.

So, if you haven't added your tools to the list yet or you find it added incompletely by someone else, please edit the list at [2]!

Here is what I'm asking you to do:

* Please check if your tools are on the list (correctly). * Please fill in your software dependencies, data dependencies, use patterns (are they running continously? or webservices? Batch runs? etc.), the license. * If you have not given your software an explicit license, please note that only free software can migrate to Labs. Consider putting your stuff under a free license. (as in OSI-approved) * If you have already migrated your bot or tool to Labs and it is in the list, please say so in the last column "status". * If your toolserver account has expired and/or your tool is not active on the toolserver right now, please add it to the second table at the bottom of the page. In the last column write that it is not running currently and if you want to revive it. If you are considering to revive it, please fill in all the details, too, so that your needs will be taken into account. * Please follow the toolserver-announce list for more information to come.

Thanks for your help! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me, to ask on toolserver-l and/or on labs-l.

Cheers, Silke

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_needed_in_T... [2] List of Tools: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools