On 25/09/12 23:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Indeed the first answers on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_wanted_in_Tool_Labs seem to indicate that all tools and services currently on Toolserver will just be trashed and people forced to reinvent them from scratch because a completely different approach is thought to be better.
Nemo
Both approaches have its merits. The WMF could have copied the toolserver recipe much more easily than gooing the route of labs. They were brave pursuing the VM based system, and it allows solving different problems. But both of them have their use. It's not a case where one should "win" the other, or the toolserver is "bad" because it is currently hosted by WMDE instead of WMF.
Organizations trying to defeat one another will end up with one big loser: the community.