Request for help by Wikimedia Deutschland also posted on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Toolserver#Request_for_help_to_all_toolserver_users: of relevance for all Wikimedia projects users.

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Information on Tool Labs/ Your help needed Data: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Mittente: Silke Meyer

Hello!

You are getting this e-mail because you have an active or expired account on the toolserver.

As you might know, Wikimedia Foundation is building a cloud-based infrastructure (Labs/Tool Labs) that - in the long run - will be a replacement for the toolserver. Don't worry! The toolserver will be not just be switched off. WMF and WMDE would like to support you as good as possible when it comes to migrating tools. There will be enough time for this process. We will offer different forms of support which you will hear of soon.

Right now, Tool Labs is not ready. WMF staff, mainly Marc Pelletier is building it. You might have seen the general list of needed and wanted features [1]. For many of you crucial features are database replication and user databases. Both are upcoming features in the nearer future.

Your tools and their dependencies are taken into account to build the new infrastructure. This is why I am asking you for help: Please provide information about your tools! I started an incomplete list at [2] (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools, based on the wiki and jira). Personally I was really impressed about its length and diversity - how cool! Several people said there was so much missing in this list - so please help me to complete it!

Here is what I'm asking you to do:

* Please check if your tools are on the list (correctly). * Please fill in your software dependencies, data dependencies, use patterns (are they running continously? or webservices? Batch runs? etc.), the license. * If you have not given your software an explicit license, please note that only free software can migrate to Labs. Consider putting your stuff under a free license. * If you have already migrated your bot or tool to Labs and it is in the list, please say so in the last column "status". * If your toolserver account has expired and/or your tool is not active on the toolserver right now, please add it to the second table at the bottom of the page. In the last column write that it is not running currently and if you want to revive it. If you are considering to revive it, please fill in all the details, too, so that your needs will be taken into account. * Please follow the toolserver-announce list for more information to come.

Thanks for your help! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me, to ask on toolserver-l and/or on labs-l.

Cheers, Silke

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_needed_in_T... [2] List of Tools: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Silke_WMDE/Documentation/List_of_Tools