HI all
Jakob Voss wrote: I also doubt that communication
via Toolserver users -> Wikimedia Germany -> Wikimedia Foundation -> Wikimedia technical admins is easier than endurance at wikitech-l and IRC.
It would probably help if it was made clear to server admins that the toolserver is important to the e.V., and provides a valuable service to the community. Requests have been shrugged off because "if it's not a wiki, we don't care", or something to that effect.
I understand that neither the server admins nor the e.V. have the time and resourced to always help immediately. But some "official" statement about the toolserver would probably help - and maybe it would even be useful to have a procedure for what to do if things get stalled - as for instance with a big disk array sitting there and waiting for someone to install it, for *months* now.
Maybe we can also manage the account policy in a self-organized way: it was planned to revise all accounts in April. I'd like to switch off inactive accounts to limit the users to people who are really working with the toolserver - what do you think about it?
Well, DaB accepted the responsibility for looking at requests for new account - not sure who will decide about existing ones. In any case, I have created a rough overview of user activity: /home/daniel/login.log; The data is taken from finger, so only real logins to a shell are counted (I think) - the code is at /home/daniel/bin/users. Both files should be accessible.
Regards, Daniel