Hoi,
That is the most awful argument possible. It follows that there is no
reason to provide quality functionality in MediaWiki because it is free as
well. SHAME on you for going this low.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 December 2017 at 03:13, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected]>
wrote:
> To play devils advocate here they are dedicating and maintaining a service
> that we get free of charge. Other people have to pay a premium for the
> service we get.
>
> Cyberpower678
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
> English Wikipedia Administrator
> Global User Renamer
>
> On Dec 23, 2017, at 19:28, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I do appreciate that the ops team is working to improve reliability and
> performance of the database access. Unfortunately it seems to me that there
> is a disconnect between ops and tool devs. I wonder if the ops actually
> looked at how many user databases have been created and how frequently they
> got accessed (all that info should be readily available to them). The logs
> would also have told the ops which users relied in user DBs on the project
> DB servers. A direct email ahead of time would have gone a long way.
> The phabricator post contains the same language I've heard many times
> before: The tools devs shouldn't have used the feature anyways. To that I
> say, well, we still did and it worked great. Volunteer developers have a
> limited time budged with which they create tools that large amounts of
> users (editors and readers alike) rely on. That is just the reality of
> things, and it is not the ideal op fantasy, I know. The ops seem to be in
> an asymmetric position of power here. It sure sounds a lot like a take it
> or leave it situation to me.
>
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 12:13 PM John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> why did this happen?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/70/new_
>> wiki_replica_servers_ready_for_use/
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