Am Donnerstag, den 30.03.2006, 16:22 +0200 schrieb Daniel Kinzler:
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.
ack.
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.
I have eMailed with the seller of the raidcard. The card is deliver until February, so I guess it must be at the RZ. The problem is: Nobody knows, when karc is going to the RZ next time to build in the card.
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.
The date of 1.April is moved into future, because kate is busy at the moment and had forgotten the date. When she a lower stresslevel, I will speak with her, about whoms account will be delete. @Daniel: Thanks for the log.
BTW: Kate told me, that she can read this ML, but not answer, because there must be a error on the mailinglistserver. I have problems too.
Regards, Daniel
Sincertly DaB.