[Toolserver-l] communication with wiki communities

[River Tarnell]

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Daniel Kinzler:
> I'm not quite sure though if the toolserver blog should be on the planet...

it already is.

> On the other hand, status reports like "replication failed, will fix
> tomorrow" is not so helpful in the aggregated feed.

i don't know if that belongs on the blog; i intended it for organisational
issues more than technical.  we do have a mailing list already...
 
> The Toolserver, or more accurately, the Toolserver cluster, is a project by
> Wikimedia Germany

with assistance from Wikimedia France (ZWS).

> The Toolserver cluster, is located in Amsterdam

and one machine in Tampa.

> I believe that there was some frustration by people who had the skill to
> develop helpful tools for the wiki communities, but did not get access to the
> main server cluster, for security reasons. So the idea arose to create a
> place for such people to work with the data.

it's interesting that the Toolserver turned out quite differently than we
initially expected; i had hoped to create a community where people would work
together to create useful tools, but instead we have isolated users who create
their own tools (or in some cases, 10 copies of the same tool) and rarely work
together.  it's a shame; i think the former would be much more useful than what
we have now...

> > * If one gets an account, what are the responsibilities?  I know
> > accounts had to be reconfirmed, are there resource limits such as disk
> > space limits for each user? or what?
> 
> It's the user's responsibility to comply to the rules, that is, to do no evil.
> There are no hard limits on resources, users are asked to be considerate.

we do have a hard limit on memory use, which is 1GB per user.  (because
we often found users would consume all the available memory, whereupon the
server would crash.)

	- river.
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