Robert Rohde wrote:
I must confess my understanding of replication is
crude, but it seems like a
lot of problems might be solved if WMF could establish some form of
intermediate replication server that took existing databases, stripped out
the private bits, and then offered the remainder for public replication.
I'd imagine it could be useful not just for the toolserver, but also to
academics, and others.
Given the amount of trouble it is just to maintain the toolserver
replica in the first place, supporting third-party users with
replication doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. Is that something
that toolserver administrators think they would have the time and
manpower to handle?