On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Toolserver's way of doing things is very individualized. It doesn't
promote collaboration, and it leads to tools disappearing when a
user's account is disabled.
Wrong. Do you know MMP
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/MMP ?
Toolserver already allows collaboration as you describe it. What you seem to
be saying is that you want to *force* people to collaborate: are you sure
this works?
I'd rather suggest to investigate what works or not in the MMP (very simple)
model and why people don't use it more in Toolserver, so that you can build
on that experience and understand better the users' needs.
Yes, I know about MMP. It was introduced much later, after people were
already very used to doing things in an individualized manner. From
what I'm told MMPs aren't used much.
Toolserver's model is fundamentally different. It's based on an old
concept of shared hosting. Labs is built on a model more like a VPS
(really more like EC2). Due to that, it's possible to give users far
more rights. MMPs aren't a very elegant solution. I'd prefer not to
force an inelegant solution into a system that allows much more
elegant approaches.
Of course, as I mentioned before, there's nothing forcing this new
model at all. If you guys want to build the exact same Toolserver
environment as a Labs project, go for it. I have a good feeling you'll
start doing things differently when you see the affordances given by
having more rights, though. Either path chosen, we'll help you with
infrastructure issues along the way.
- Ryan