On 20/12/12 16:58, DaB. wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just came back from a meeting with Denis Barthel. Denis is a long-time
> employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and works in the resort "Community".
> Denis was assigned to help to normalize the relationship between the
> Toolserver, WMDE and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); especially in the field of
> WikiLabs/Toollabs. His opinion is that if we all work together the move from
> the toolserver to Wikilabs can work. I still doubt that, but I agreed to give
> WMF a little more AGF (assume good faith).
> As you know the general meeting of WMDE decided that the WMF has to guarantee
> that the features of the toolserver exists in WikiLabs within 6 months
> (otherwise WMDE has to look for a way to continue the toolserver). Denis asked
> me to provide such a list of short-time-base.

The toolserver allows propietary tools. This is required by some users
and should thus be considered a toolserver feature (“i wrote code at
work for my company and reuse parts for my bot framework. I have not the
right to declare this code as open source which is needed by labs
policy.” [1]).

Given that it has been stated from WMF side that closed-apps won't be
supported, it seems impossible that “the features of the toolserver
exists in WikiLabs”.

[1] Mail on Sep 26th by Merlissimo.

Am I the only one that sees [1] as a giant liability issue? He's using his company's IP, which opens toolserver up to lawsuits.

- Ryan