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