Dab, Thank you for all your Work.
Best, Huib Op woensdag 29 mei 2013 schreef DaB. (w...@daniel.baur4.info) het volgende: > Hello guys, > > I just extended my personal account until 5. January of 2014 – it is the > last > time I do this. At this day I will also remove my access as root of the > Toolserver. Beginning of 1. July I will start my fade out, doing less and > less > work for the Toolserver until I am not longer visible. I announce that this > early because I think it is fair for you to know that will happen and I > like > not just to vanish like some roots before. > > There are 4 main factors why I decided to not continue my work until the > end > of the Toolserver in December 2014. > > Reason 1 is that the Toolserver now has a second paid root and 6 months > will > be enough to teach amette and nosy what I know about the Toolserver. > > Reason 2 is that there was no real investment in the Toolserver in the > first 6 > months of 2013 and I very doubt that there will ever be any in the second > half > or beyond. > > Reason 3 is that I learned during the last weekend that the support of the > Toolserver in the board of WMDE reached its minimum. > One board-member announced publicly during the general meeting of WMDE > that it > is good that there is a timetable for the Toolserver now – I know only 1 > timetable for the Toolserver and that’s Silke’s <s>plan of destruction</s> > roadmap for migration [1]. > Another board-member told me during a chatting in the halls that ToolLabs > (or > the move to) is "klasse" (~great). > It is impossible to improve the Toolserver against the CEO *and* the board > of > WMDE. > > Reason 4 are you, the tool-authors. > The participation in my survey [2] was pitiful low and the majority of > these > few who voted, voted to leave the Toolserver as soon as possible or this > year > – a trend that was already visible on the mailing-list before. So I > conclude > that the most of you don’t care and whose care will leave this year. > While I asked for documentation (or at least correction) in the toolserver- > wikis for years, nearly nothing ever happened. But now that ToolLabs is on > the > horizon you write documentation for THAT – freely. > And it is really a joke to compare the empty new database-servers of > ToolLabs > with our old and heavy loaded servers for performance. Let’s see how fast > they > are if 10 slow queries, which had run for hours, run in parallel. > With very few exceptions none of you helped to protect the Toolserver > against > ToolLabs; all you were interested in was that ToolLabs provides the same > environment so your tools can continue to run there. When I read such > phrases > like "we have to stabilize the Toolserver until Labs is ready" or now "we > need > the Toolserver for redirects to ToolLabs" I could vomit! > > I promised in November 2012 that I will stay for another year and I will > fulfill that promise – but not a day longer. There is no point in fighting > for > something if the something has already surrendered and no support is there > (not from you, the toolusers, the board of WMDE, the CEO of WMDE or the > general meeting of WMDE). > > These of you who are able to move to ToolLabs I wish luck. Let’s hope that > the > WMF does not decide to "re-focus" again too soon. Let’s hope that the WMF > does > not disable tools just because there are a little slow. Let’s hope that the > WMF does not restrict the database-tables even more. Let’s hope that the > WMF > does not kick the volunteers out completely some days like they did with > the > WMF-wiki-admins some weeks ago. And hoping is all we can do, because the > WMF > is a undemocratic construct and ToolLabs is lead by paid roots, so whatever > the WMF staff decides will happen. > Maybe if one of these things happen you will remember the tiny, slow, > unstable, but free Toolserver — but it will not be there anymore. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en > [2] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Labs-Moving-Survey > > > -- > Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885 > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Huib Laurens
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