On 07/03/2014 07:12 AM, James Salsman wrote: > Can someone please explain to me why the Foundation can't give > User:Dispenser 24 TB on Tool Labs?
To make matters a bit clearer, Dispenser's current Reflinks tool (and all his others) do not need 24T of storage (nor would toolserver have had that storage to give him, even if it were possible). His demands for the storage are for a new version of the tool he is yet to write that is meant to actually cache the external link's webpages - a request he has yet to actually make to WMF Engineering. He was never told no; he was told (by me, inter alia) that he'd need to make a proposal with explanation and rationale before we would commit several thousand dollars of resources towards an unspecified, future project of his (especially one that is likely to need Legal to look into). That he has not in fact moved his existing tools to Tool Labs is unrelated to this; there is no technical impediment to him running his tools in Labs today if he chooses to. Also, 24T is a significant chunk of the space available to Labs in general; storage is nowhere near as inexpensive in our context as would be with off-the-shelf customer-grade disks. There's nothing that prevents us from allocating significant resources to a project that needs it (to wit: open street maps tile generator) but we're not going to do that site unseen and without supervision. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
