[Toolserver-l] Can't maintain all your tools in the long run? Get more people in!

2013-09-27 Thread Silke Meyer
Hi all! When it comes to the question of migrating tools to Tool Labs, some of you might notice that you don't have the amount of time needed for maintenance that you had earlier. WMDE offered to help you with the actual migration but we can't maintain abandoned tools in the long run. For

[Toolserver-l] Maintainer(s) wanted: Contribs, new pages and others

2013-09-27 Thread Silke Meyer
Erwin85 is looking for people to maintain his very popular tools [1] (as he wrote on [2]). They are currently running on the toolserver. If you are looking for a project to help with, please have a look at the tools. If you are interested in helping to maintain one or a few of them, here are your

[Toolserver-l] new Tool Labs guide

2013-09-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help If you know anyone who's been confused by Labs documentation in the past, the revamped Tool Labs guide is pretty helpful. Thanks to Ryan Kaldari for recently adding instructions for configuring MySQLWorkbench (an alternative to

Re: [Toolserver-l] [Labs-l] Maintainer(s) wanted: Contribs, new pages and others

2013-09-27 Thread Silke Meyer
Magnus, I don't know what to say - you're amazing! :) 2013/9/27 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com It has begun: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Erwin#Labs_port Anyone else interested, please help me porting/maintaining; grunt work is done ;-) On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at

[Toolserver-l] a few resources you might not know about

2013-09-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I'm about to head off for three months for a sabbatical, so I wanted to let you know of a few more underappreciated resources. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce is a very low-traffic list with announcements of office hours, meetups, bug days, and so on. And

Re: [Toolserver-l] Can't maintain all your tools in the long run? Get more people in!

2013-09-27 Thread MZMcBride
Silke Meyer wrote: When it comes to the question of migrating tools to Tool Labs, some of you might notice that you don't have the amount of time needed for maintenance that you had earlier. WMDE offered to help you with the actual migration but we can't maintain abandoned tools in the long run.

[Toolserver-l] Toolserver wiki

2013-09-27 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. Do we have plans for the Toolserver wiki (https://wiki.toolserver.org/)? There's some very good content in/on the wiki that would be nice to move to either wikitech.wikimedia.org or mediawiki.org, I think. Has this been discussed anywhere? Does anyone have any thoughts about this? MZMcBride