On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Why does the Foundation need a proposal to do that? Where is that requirement documented?
I work in a research institute that has >20 Petabyte of spinning disk. If I need 20TB of server-grade storage, I have to make a formal request, and provide a rationale. And I work there.
I don't know on what happy planet you live where that much hardware grows on trees so that it can be given out on a whim, but as someone who both has a lot of tools running on Labs, and who gives money to WMF on a regular basis, I am glad that there is at least some sanity checking for endeavours of this size.
Cheers, Magnus