It's a recurring problem. Tool Y becomes popular, then becomes unmaintained. Other developers/WMCS/Toolforge roots/Standards Committee investigate, and find that everything is All Rights Reserved. Then the bot task/tool is dead until someone rewrites it, often years later.
Happened most recently with the SanFranBan of جار الله / JarBot, but that's definitely not an isolated incident. ACN On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 11:41 Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote: > Hi Kunal, > > Can you explain here and/or on > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_sweep why you > want to do this? > > Maarten > > On 29-12-2022 10:02, Kunal Mehta wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > tl;dr: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_sweep > > > > It has been nearly a decade since Toolforge came online. Since then, > > there have a been a lot of improvements to tool infrastructure, but > > many tools have not yet caught up. For example, new tools are required > > to have metadata in toolsadmin, and unused tools can now be > > archived/deleted. > > > > I am proposing that we "sweep" through all tools, checking each one for: > > * Indicating a OSI-approved license in the source code/metadata > > * Having source code published somewhere > > * Not loading external resources (for web applications) > > * Having tool information and metadata in Toolsadmin or Toolhub > > > > This is explained further on the wiki page, with proposed remediation > > steps. > > > > There are roughly ~3,200 tools, if we split it up into batches by > > month, it's about 250 tools per month. Depending on how many people > > are interested sweeping, it could be doable :) ...or it might take > > multiple years to clear through. > > > > Ultimately the goal is to support tool maintainers with bringing their > > tools up to standard rather than criticizing them for not doing so. > > > > If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the > > wiki page :) I would like to kick this off in the first week of January. > > > > Please let me know if you have any concerns, questions or suggestions. > > > > Thanks, > > -- Kunal / Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > > Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org > > List information: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ > -- AntiCompositeNumber (he/him)
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