"Andrew Garrett" agarrett@wikimedia.org
This is totally unproductive, unwelcome and unnecessary. Please go away if this is the sum of your contribution to this list.
You seem to be making sarcastic comments attacking toolserver admins for making an estimate an order of magnitude or two about how long the s1 reimport will take. I'm not sure how you could possibly think this is acceptable.
I should remind you that we can't make the reimport run faster, that we are volunteers (at least, in our capacity as toolserver admins), and that when somebody asked how long was remaining, an up to date estimate was given within ten minutes. What more would you like?
No offense was intended. I was trying to be lighthearted.
I did not see your response before posting. Up until that point, there had been several other inquiries, both on the mailing list and on IRC, and all the responses had been rather curt references to the fact that a reimport was in progress, with no estimate of when it might be completed.
To put it in perspective, I provide professional services for a living. If I told a client that a particular task would be done in a few hours, and several days later it was not done, and if the client then asked what was taking so long, and my response had the tone of the responses that Toolserver users had received *prior to yours* earlier this hour -- I'd be out looking for a new client.
Yes, I know that you are not doing this for pay (although both WMF and Wikimedia DE do actively solicit for monetary contributions from their loyal users), and that you cannot make it go any faster. I think all the users want is to be kept informed if things are taking longer than originally anticipated.
Again, I was not intending to attack anyone, and if my comment was interpreted that way, I do apologize.