Sorry I forgot to copy this list.
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From: *James Salsman* <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Subject: Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared
hosting)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bawolff(a)gmail.com');>> wrote:
> If you want to get Dispenser his hard disk space, you should take it
> up with the labs people, or at the very least some thread where it
> would be on-topic.
>
The labs people are so understaffed that two extremely important anti-spam
bots recently had to be taken offline for much longer than in recent years.
I propose Foundation management allocate the necessary resources and
recommend the hiring of sufficient personnel and purchasing of sufficient,
non NSA-compatible (i.e., discount and homebrew style) equipment
to properly support both existing infrastructural bots and similar projects
such as Dispenser's reflinks cache.
I would also like to propose that the Foundation oppose the TPP provisions
deleterious to our interests, and that this position be endorsed on the
Public Policy list.
> Then by definition it wouldn't be a third-party spam framework if WMF
> was running it.
I am not proposing that the WMF take the bots over, just meet their
necessary service level requirements.
Sincerely,
Jim