That all seems logical, appropriate, and aligned with our current
procedures. So..what's the problem?

-greg aka varnent


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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