temporary blockers
- no replication of wikimedia wiki databases
** joining of user databases with wiki databases
We currently have no plans for having the user databases on the same servers as the replicated databases. Direct joins will not be possible, so tools will need to be modified.
- no support for script execution dependency (on ts: currently done by sge)
There's less of a need for this in Labs. If whatever you are running is really expensive, you can have your own instance. That said, I was looking at integrating a global queuing system. It won't be SGE, though.
If someone is really keen on SGE, then I recommend they work with us to puppetize it. Thankfully, open grid engine is already packaged in ubuntu, which should make that much easier.
- no support for servlets
I'm not sure what you mean by servlet?
missing support blockers
- no support for new users not familar with unix based systems
Can you describe how this is handled in Toolserver currently?
- no transparent updating of packages with security problems/bug
Ubuntu has unattended-upgrades. It's generally enabled on instances.
permanent blockers
- license problems (i wrote code at work for my company and reuse parts for
my bot framework. I have not the right to declare this code as open source which is needed by labs policy.)
This will continue to be a permanent blocker.
You can't decide that on your own, but you can ask your employer if you can open source the code.
- no DaB.
I'd love DaB to help us improve Labs.
Everything about Labs is fully open. Anyone can help build it, even the production portions.
- Ryan