Merlissimo merl@toolserver.org wrote:
Toolserver is in fact hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation today, in our Amsterdam data-center. [..] We also maintain the database replication on our end which enables tools to function.
I don't know all internal systems, but i think by maintaining you mean: grant access to mysql binlogs, traffic costs and sometimes creating a dump.
Why can WMF not administrate the hole database replication servers for toolserver users in short-term if WMDE should not spend money on this anymore? Setting up new replication servers at production system is done quite often. Adding views for hiding private data and adding access control based on toolserver ldap should be possible. The rest of the toolserver infrastructure won't be touched by this change. [...]
Apparently, it is not that smooth for WMF admins (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver/3166):
| > one obvious solution would be to treat the Toolserver database servers | > as part of WMF's domain so they can use their SOPs (*1) to maintain | > them instead of manually coordinating with the Toolserver admins (or | > not).
| I don't think that would be any easier. Our database systems are | completely different from theirs, so it would require all WMF admins to | learn (and remember) a new procedure before they could change anything | on their side. Since they usually don't think to notify us of major | changes in advance, I don't think they would be very happy with that.
Tim