Dear DaB, as you've mentioned yourself in your mail, it was only last weekend that you came to Berlin for WMDE's general assembly. I hope you don't mind me adding that you stayed through Sunday in order to join our bar camp / open sunday. Well, and before that you and your fellow volunteer account auditors visited the WMDE office in order to prepare for the report to the general assembly, as you have done for so many years now.
It is with all these examples of volunteer enthusiasm in mind that I have read and re-read your fade-out notice. I can't help but notice that you'll probably have carried all your concerns not only through recent months but also through last weekend. And still, on all of the above mentioned occasions you've shown the same openness, scrutiny and dedication that many people surely have come to know you for. I'd like to thank you for those years of continuous support you've been devoting to the Toolserver. The Toolserver would not have been the success it was and still is without your dedication and your know-how. I think you've made yourself crystal-clear about your feelings and that's all the more reason for me to say how truly regretful it is when different expectations cannot be turned into acceptable solutions for all parties involved. Your insights will be invaluable to amette and nosy, and I am grateful for your offer to reach out to them. This feels in line with the general attitude you've been displaying to everyone working with you over the past couple of years. Hopefully, you already know how much appreciated your passion, your time and your efforts have been and will be in the future. If you don't, let me please emphasize whole-heartedly that they are most appreciated. You are. Sincerely, Pavel Richter Vorstand Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260 Twitter: @pavel 2013/5/29 DaB. <w...@daniel.baur4.info> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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