On March 28, 2006 3:20 PM Daniel Kinzler wrote: [... ]> would be great! Please talk to DaB about this, he's our contact to the
e.V. My idea would be to have separate boxes for a) public, web-based tools, and b) another one for running massive queries on.
Did you say web-based tools like kvalebergs (still external) service? And massive queries like our coordinate parser? That sounds interesting!
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I'm giving _one_ weeks time to the colleagues here to solve the technical problem of mirroring. To my humble point of view this is still finally an organisational problem...
Uh, what?! I'm sympathetic to your complains in general, but WTF?! You are *giving* us one week? Or what? You know, there's no *right* to be able to use the toolserver, or to have it available at all. If you don't like it, help to fix it, or go away.
Ok; that answer came fast... Sorry, I should have written "I'm giving _me_ one weeks time..." simply because the team project has to come to an end (unless e.V. itself does sponsor programmer teams :->).
Btw: both major issues I described above are based on technical problems. Yes, they can be overcome, but it's not simple. It takes time and effort, which someone will have to donate. How about you?
Believe me, it's several boxes worth what we invested in cash in this Wikipoint-db - and don't mention time. Our know-how lies in geoinformation processing, so I thought it's there where our contribution would be most efficient.
I'm aware that this is a technical problem - you actually made me curious about replication - but to me it's still seems to be also an organisational issue because there are'nt more admins to help you two out. If Wikipedia want's to become mature and if I would be e.V. I would put cracks like you on the pay roll.
-- Stefan