[Toolserver-l] The Norwegian toolserver

[John at Darkstar]

It should not be necessary to set up replication _manually_ for each and
every toolserver.

More or less... ;)

John (my typos are mine!)

John at Darkstar wrote:
> Perhaps there could be some kind of central management of some kind.
> 
> One thing is distribution of the open databases. It should not be
> necessary to set up replication for each and every toolserver.
> 
> Some kind of central authentication so access can be federated perhaps,
> yet authorization should be enforced locally.
> 
> But then perhaps we could use the same facility if the internal access
> rules on the various servers could be more stringent, that is a
> Norwegian server is for Norwegian use only - even if its located in the
> cluster. More like a webhotel with server hosting for chapters. Now,
> make it even more general and say virtual servers for the chapters own
> use and make them off-limit for other bot operators.
> 
> Still, note that such a server, virtual or not, has to be under complete
> control of the individual chapter. Even sharing backup tapes could be
> troublesome.
> 
>> I would suggest though that we should set up some means of exchanging info
>> between the different projects of that kind - to my knowledge, there'S the boxes
>> in poland, now in norway, and wmde's toolserver. Do you know of more? What would
>> be a good way to communicate? Yet another mailing list?
> 
> I don't think another mailing list is necessary. If a toolserver-box is
> used for something else that need higher confidentiality then it should
> go on a local chapter list or something similar.
> 
>> -- daniel
> 
> John
> 
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