On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Platonides
<platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/12/12 16:58, DaB. wrote:
Hello all,
I just came back from a meeting with Denis Barthel. Denis is a long-time
employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and works in the resort
"Community".
Denis was assigned to help to normalize the
relationship between the
Toolserver, WMDE and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); especially in the
field of
WikiLabs/Toollabs. His opinion is that if we all
work together the move
from
the toolserver to Wikilabs can work. I still
doubt that, but I agreed to
give
WMF a little more AGF (assume good faith).
As you know the general meeting of WMDE decided that the WMF has to
guarantee
that the features of the toolserver exists in
WikiLabs within 6 months
(otherwise WMDE has to look for a way to continue the toolserver). Denis
asked
me to provide such a list of short-time-base.
The toolserver allows propietary tools. This is required by some users
and should thus be considered a toolserver feature (“i wrote code at
work for my company and reuse parts for my bot framework. I have not the
right to declare this code as open source which is needed by labs
policy.” [1]).
Given that it has been stated from WMF side that closed-apps won't be
supported, it seems impossible that “the features of the toolserver
exists in WikiLabs”.
[1] Mail on Sep 26th by Merlissimo.
Am I the only one that sees [1] as a giant liability issue? He's using his
company's IP, which opens toolserver up to lawsuits.
- Ryan