[Labs-l] Tool Labs: Summary of Feedback on the Draft for the Roadmap

Mon Apr 22 15:59:34 UTC 2013

I was lucky to get my account approved very quickly (slipped into the "big
cleanup"), but now I'm in limbo:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Project_Request/wikidataquery

I got a free Amazon EC2 instance running (in less time than getting an
approved account on labs;-) but they'll start to charge eventually...

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> Hello, Silke.
>
> On 04/22/2013 09:51 AM, Silke Meyer wrote:
> > 2) Bad Tool Labs experience:
> > * How fast is the account creation process right now?
>
> It was bad, because it's a process that was out-of-the way and while
> some of us did keep an eye on it, it was irregular and sometimes the
> list could grow without anyone noticing.
>
> We have already noticed this as a problem, and have put a measure in
> place to help: there is now a bot that warns us on IRC when a shell
> request is pending, and it's now a matter of hours at most before a
> request gets answered.
>
> > * Documentation has to be improved! Good overviews are needed as well
> > as a detailed documentation of everything relevant to working in Tool
> > Labs.
>
> Yes it does.  Nominally, that's part of my job but - at this time - I've
> had little time for much documentation beyond a simplified overview of
> some of the key points; much of my time has been spent on implementation.
>
> I'm hoping I'll be able to give a documentation rush in the following
> weeks but, to be perfectly honest, I expect that this will be one of the
> primary benefits of the Amsterdam Hackaton while we're sitting with
> maintainers and actually working on transition.
>
> -- Marc
>
>
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