Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl wrote:
On 21 May 2012 23:52, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
This madness has to stop. Wikisource depends on this service. I understand the German toolserver is beyond repair, but phe's statistics scripts should be moved to proper WMF servers.
This madness has to stop. Wikis should stop depending on services that are not hosted in multi-maintainer projects!
I don't think that's realistic. There is barely enough of us (volunteer programmers) as it is; co-maintaining someone else's code would add a significant workload.
I recently switched to an MMP for some project we depend on heavily (http://toolserver.org/~citegen/ - citation template generator) and I found out not everything works like on a normal account.
For example, our webserver interface does not set $HOME in the environment, so for each project I might need to hardcode its base directory:
https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1341 Webserver FastCGI interface does not set $HOME
Probably something like __FILE__ from PHP should be used but the point was to migrate a working tool and work on refactoring together later.
//Saper