Hi DaB., ich will jetzt hier nicht lange rumlabern...
Thank you. Thank you for good work. For reliability over years. For fighting. Und... eigentlich auch für die harte Kritik. See you, Silke 2014/1/3 DaB. <t...@dabpunkt.eu>: > Hello folks, > > as announced at 16. November I retired as root today. > > Normally you write in such mails that you are sad now and that you had a > great time while it lasted. But I’m glad that it is over. > > Don’t get me wrong: There were times when the work was great and most > times the work was even fun. But there were also several times > (especially in the last 2 years) when the Toolserver was horror. WMDE > didn’t invest enough money, WMF found new problems with the TS, hardware > was broken or the users (both authors and tool-users) were ignorant or > impatient. > If I had knew in autumn 2011 how the Toolserver would developing in the > coming years, I had not overtake as main root. I learned the hard way, > that it doesn’t matter how much work and time you invest if the > leadership (WMDE and WMF) work against you; and the members of WMDE and > the Wikipedians (at least in deWP) were no great help either. > > I learned many things (in technical and political sense), met nice > persons and helped to give the Wikimedia-universe some great tools, > that’s the positive side I take with me now. I’m sure that I will miss > the Toolserver and its users from time to time. > > Those of you who switch to Labs I wish good luck. All of you (if retired > already or not) I like to thank for the good times and I wish you the > best for your future :-). I’m sure that I will meet some of you in the > coming years again. > > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-announce mailing list > toolserver-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-announce > -- Silke Meyer Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ 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
