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"