I'm in the process of working with Dispenser to get said proposal written and the ball rolling. However this process will take some time
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.var...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
