On 7/8/16 4:02 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I know resources are limited but I very very strongly object with this
course of action. A lot of people are not on these mailing list, just
not reading it or on holiday because it's summer.
I always make an attempt to personally contact project admins before
taking steps that affect a project. That said: If you are a consumer
of Labs resources, it is your /responsibility/ to subscribe to this list
and read announcements from admins. Any unattended and unmaintained
server is not just a wasted expense; it is a potential security risk to
all of Labs.
Suspending, shutting down and deletion projects is a good way to piss
off and scare away volunteers.
And spending thousands of dollars of donor money on resources for
projects that no one has looked at in years is a good way to ensure that
we never have any new volunteers, because we don't have any resources to
give them. It's clearly a balancing act, but I'm not clear on what the
alternatives are to having these periodic clean-ups.
-A
I'm sure that's not your intended outcome.
Maarten
On 08-07-16 18:09, Andrew Bogott wrote:
If you are exclusively a user of tool labs, you can ignore this
email. If you use or administer another labs project, this email
REQUIRES ACTION ON YOUR PART.
We are reclaiming unused resources due to an ongoing shortage.
Visit this page and add a signature under projects you know to be active:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016
Associated wmflabs.org <http://wmflabs.org> domains are included to
identify projects by offered services.
We are not investigating why projects are needed at this time. If
one person votes to preserve then we will do so in this round of cleanup.
In a month, projects and associated instances not claimed will be
suspended or shutdown. A month later if no one complains these
projects will be deleted..
- Andrew (on behalf of all Labs Admins everywhere)
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