[Labs-l] Install tools for production-purpose only

[Seb35]

Thank you for the answer. I return this answer to GLAM people and will  
submit a request in the webtools project.

Seb35

Le Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:55:34 +0100, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> a  
écrit:
> Things like this would be considered a semi-production tool. We only
> prohibit running things in a production way like wikis or something that
> should live in production because it would need to have production like
> uptime (like something critical to running the sites or associated
> processes).
>
> If others may wish to use this for tools, it may make sense to run this  
> in
> the webtools project.
>
> - Ryan
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know if it is permitted to install on the Labs tools  
>> which
>> could be useful for Wikimedia activities but without having in mind to
>> develop the tool. I searched a bit on archives of the list and on the  
>> wiki,
>> but didn’t found anything related.
>>
>> The specific case is the installation of OpenRefine [1][2] (ex Google
>> Refine) useful to manipulate data, for instance GLAM metadata --
>> specifically here for a cooperation with a museum in Belgium but it  
>> could
>> be for any data manipulations.
>>
>> OpenRefine is a web tool in Java+Python which listens on a specific  
>> port.
>> It is originally intended to run on the local computer. It seems it  
>> don’t
>> use many ressources for a single user.
>>
>> So is there any rules regarding the general case? And if it is
>> case-by-case, is there a checklist for a specific tool (security,
>> ressources, environment, etc.)?
>>
>> [1]  
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Google_Refine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine>
>> [2]  
>> https://github.com/OpenRefine/**OpenRefine<https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~ Seb35
>>
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