I was lucky to get my account approved very quickly (slipped into the "big cleanup"), but now I'm in limbo: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Project_Request/wikidataquery
I got a free Amazon EC2 instance running (in less time than getting an approved account on labs;-) but they'll start to charge eventually... On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Silke. > > On 04/22/2013 09:51 AM, Silke Meyer wrote: > > 2) Bad Tool Labs experience: > > * How fast is the account creation process right now? > > It was bad, because it's a process that was out-of-the way and while > some of us did keep an eye on it, it was irregular and sometimes the > list could grow without anyone noticing. > > We have already noticed this as a problem, and have put a measure in > place to help: there is now a bot that warns us on IRC when a shell > request is pending, and it's now a matter of hours at most before a > request gets answered. > > > * Documentation has to be improved! Good overviews are needed as well > > as a detailed documentation of everything relevant to working in Tool > > Labs. > > Yes it does. Nominally, that's part of my job but - at this time - I've > had little time for much documentation beyond a simplified overview of > some of the key points; much of my time has been spent on implementation. > > I'm hoping I'll be able to give a documentation rush in the following > weeks but, to be perfectly honest, I expect that this will be one of the > primary benefits of the Amsterdam Hackaton while we're sitting with > maintainers and actually working on transition. > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >
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