Last modified: 2013-04-10 06:13:07 UTC
Project creation: bug 40510. How do we want to set this up? Perhaps something like this: * Hosted like /home/project-name/public_html/... * Accessible like http://webtools.wmflabs.org/project/... * project-names must differ from user names * users can be in multiple groups That is basically like the MMP policy on Toolserver, but implemented as an exclusive. In that case we should make sure to enforce proper chmod/chgrp so that files in project-homes are always readable/writeable by other group members. And that it adapts the creation of files in those home dirs to the current group (e.g. if john is in pr-a and pr-b then stuff in /home/pr-a will become `664/775 john pr-a` and in /home/pr-b `664/775 john pr-b).
Also, for generic bot hosting, we already have a project. There should be no expensive/long-running shell processes on this.
I had a more simplistic idea at https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource_Talk:Webtools#URLs_of_MMPs: Add a tool to call dibs on a particular path name which initially will redirect to your ~/public_html/$PROJECT. I think that many tool authors don't want to hassle with the setup of a "project" - they just want to upload a PHP file, and that should work immediately.
In light of Tool Labs happening I believe it is no longer our intention to further attract people to and invest in the building of the "bots" and "webtools" projects. The "bots" project did get started for a while so that will probably stay around and/or migrate slowly towards the new properly managed "tools" infrastructure. The "webtools" project however, as far as I know, never really got very far beyond discussion and experimentation. To avoid further decentralisation, I'm closing this bug. Whatever did happen on "webtools" is, as far as I know, to be deprecated / become obsolete and be moved to the tools project. Either way, there are no tasks left for "Setting up webtools.wmflabs.org"
