Silke Meyer wrote:
DaB is right: WMF as the database owner accepts only paid roots. As to WMDE, we are ready to pay another root who is willing to work for WMDE and able to handle the requirements of the toolserver (that you know better than I do right now). You are welcome to propose people (or yourselves) or to help specify the requirements for a job advertisement.
I see your point, DaB, the work you would put into instructing a new person. So another possibility could be to pay an external service provider to get a bunch of things done in one go to decrease the to do pile. Which is rather a short-term help and still requires some DaB. For this, I would need a list of tasks that you, DaB and Marlen, would like to delegate. Any opinions on this?
I imagine that most Toolserver users are less interested in the mechanics of the machine than they are in its results. As I see it, the primary purpose of the Toolserver is to provide replicated databases. The Toolserver has other (secondary) purposes such as providing shared hosting and storage, but that is so ubiquitous on the Web these days that it's not really relevant here.
Focusing solely on the replicated databases for a moment, they've been corrupt for months. Months and months. What can be done about this? Would having additional roots help with this?
MZMcBride