... His demands for the storage are for a new version
of
the tool he is yet to write that is meant to actually cache
the external link's webpages...likely to need Legal to look into
Just like any search engine keeps a reconstructable representation of
the indexed text. There is absolutely no question that there would be
any legal impediments involved.
a request he has yet to actually make to WMF
Engineering.
WMF Engineering staff has known about the need for weeks to months.
he'd need to make a proposal with explanation and
rationale
before we would commit several thousand dollars of resources
How much exactly would it cost the Foundation to provide 24 TB on Tool Labs?
Why does the Foundation need a proposal to do that? Where is that
requirement documented?
Shouldn't someone of User:Dispenser's stature, track record, not to
mention the person-centuries he has already saved editors be given
sufficient resources to experiment with different software
architectures for addressing the kinds of problems he sees as
community needs? Why do we need to impose a new layer of bureaucracy
on that?
That he has not in fact moved his existing tools to
Tool Labs is unrelated to this
Completely absurd. He owns his code, and since the Foundation has
demonstrated that they apparently have no interest in helping him
create expanded capabilities for it, he has every right to rescind his
permission for the Foundation to use his code.
There's nothing that prevents us from allocating
significant
resources ... but we're not going to do that site unseen and
without supervision.
So now developers have to fill out permission slips and obtain a
Foundation staff supervisor? Where are these requirements documented?
The community needs to start publishing measurements of individual
Foundation employees by how much their decisions help or hinder the
editor community.