Hello Gregory
Just to avoid any misunderstanding: I agree with pretty much all you
said. There *are* massive organizational problems, and not getting a
response to a request is very frustration - it has happened to me too.
My comment you responded to was aimed at Stefan's "ultimatum" - which
was a misunderstanding, as it turns out.
On the other hand, there are in fact technical issues. For instance, as
far as I know, the OAI interface would have to be extended to be usable
for full text replication (not sure about the details, but I vaguely
remember Kate telling me about it). To Mediawiki developers, the primary
goal is to support Wikipedia, not the toolserver. It's often annoying,
but that is their priority. "Official" requests from the e.V. might
help, though.
In any case: we should try to resolve the organizational problems, and
work on ways to get around the technical issues. I know, it's
frustrating to be stalled because "da man" is currently busy doing
something else, but that's how it is with volunteer projects. Flying
into a rage will not help. Taking load off the people we want to do
things might.
Regards,
Daniel
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