Hi,
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
To my knowledge, the WMF was not officially asked to
provide the box (or
anything) for this. Given that, I don't think it's fair to say that the
proposal failed with WMF.
Actually, at the start, we did ask the WMF, and we were pointed to the
toolserver. I requested an account, found out the rules, and the sandbox
server group at the time decided that the toolserver didn't fulfill what we
were looking for.
We then asked a number of times for a spare or unallocated server, or even
an older/decommissioned server. After asking, waiting, and asking again, we
were given the impression that this would never be something the WMF would
be willing to assist with directly.
If anything has changed in this regard, it would be an interesting
development, and perhaps something worth pursuing in the long term.
Thanks,
Gerald