[Labs-l] DB replication monopoly or not

Thu Sep 12 04:50:13 UTC 2013

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just spotted this (http://lists.wikimedia.org/**
> pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-**August/006260.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-August/006260.html>):
>
> ----
>
> > > I'm more than happy to recommend a number of cloud services and am
> > > more than willing to give advice on how to configure and run tools
> > > and bots from those services. It's even possible to reuse the work
> > > we're doing in the tools project, or in the Wikimedia infrastructure
> > > via our puppet repository since our infrastructure is Open Source.
> >
> > Very nice idea – how I get the mysql-replication-stream? I got several
> > offers of donation if the Toolserver would continue; the only problem is
> > the replication-data. But because the data is open-source, it shouldn’t
> > be a problem than, should it?
> >
> >
>
> Assuming you found a non-profit, host your infrastructure somewhere that
> doesn't cause legal issues and every person that has access to the data
> stream signs an NDA it's likely doable.
>
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>
> Can WMF please confirm that this is the case and it wasn't a boutade? If
> yes, could you indicate a single point of contact interested parties can
> negotiate such an arrangement with?
> (See also the first unanswered question by Sj at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Talk:Future_of_**
> Toolserver#September_2012<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_Toolserver#September_2012>
> >.)
>
> Generically, legal at wikimedia.org would be the point of contact for
anything like that.

> Nemo
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