On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, DaB. <WP@daniel.baur4.info> wrote:

Hello all,

until now I had the impression that we (you, the authors, and me) fight
together against WMF and WMDE for keeping the Toolserver and against Labs.
Some mails and discussion in the last days gives me now the impression that
this was wrong and (at least some of) you are eager to leave the toolserver as
soon as possible.
There is no point to beg the WMDE for new hardware and to invest much more
time if 2 weeks after Labs is "ready" the toolserver will be empty. For this
reason I created a survey at [1] that starts at midnight. Please take a moment
of your time and place your nick in the section that suits you.

I'm confused. I thought we were all here to support the readers, editors, researchers and developers of the Wikimedia projects? If the toolserver is empty because Labs is accomplishing the goal, isn't that a good thing?

I've asked this before: why not help with Labs, rather than fighting everyone? Let's work as a team and have a well supported, well funded product that's run by all of us, with a larger scope that incorporates infrastructure and development volunteers. We appreciate your work on the Toolserver and would appreciate it in Labs as well.

- Ryan