[Labs-l] DB replication monopoly or not

Mon Sep 16 19:46:18 UTC 2013

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Leslie Carr <lcarr at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Just spotted this (
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-August/006260.html):
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>> > > 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.
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>> > 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?
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>> 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
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>> Generically, legal at wikimedia.org would be the point of contact for
> anything like that.
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I think there is some historical context here I'm missing, so I'm looking
into it, but can't promise an answer particularly quickly.

Luis

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