when is it going to be applied to the other server?

Soon^TM! 
Can't be much more than a year now!

I'd advise lots of prayer/strong drink, depending on your preference.   

You just need to learn the right way to pet them, they need love like anyone else...
Stop the slaughter of Yliakum's intelligent and sensitive animals!   

Crafting should be long, ardous and difficult, not annoyingly so but for a couple reasons that come to mind. Firstly, crafting is very rewarding in the end result and secondly I remember too many people spamming one button while using another client to mine. The latter is then reduced and the first is even more rewarding with the new system.

(I know the player who started this thread is a master sword and axe crafter... so maybe pay a bit of attention to what he was saying )

Work in real life is "long, arduous and difficult". We play games to get away from that. Games should be fun. I have never heard anyone refer to crafting in PlaneShift as fun.

So what if it is rewarding in the end? If it is too tedious and time consuming to see actual results, most players will never do it long enough to see any reward.
What I am referring to is the lack of obvious progression in quality from level to level. At level 1 sword-making it is possible to craft blades of 150Q... at level 10 (after many hours of tedious click, move, click) it is still quite likely to make swords under 100Q. The flaws in the random system that Elvors and Tharos pointed out, coupled with the length of time involved and extreme repetitiveness of the tasks, serve to effectively discourage most players who would otherwise enjoy roleplaying a crafter.

I do not see how this will reduce people mining while crafting. It is entirely possible to switch to the "mining alt" during any stage of crafting (except perhaps heating in the forge or furnace).
I am not even going to start here about what should be changed with metallurgy, to avoid dragging this thread too far 

Wow! This thread has gone seriously 
(Not that I don't love a good flame war...)
 

Yet what you suggest (and what we already do) is even more noise. Or spam, as UtM called it.

Only if it is done incessantly... which is what an automatic feature would do right? Also, you can tell a spamming player to shut up, or /ignore them, but at this point "/ignore" does not filter automatic action tags or emotes. I don't really want to know who is working on which crafting step each time I walk by Harnquist's... 

Welcome to PlaneShift, Metola!

While I was typing out how to use chat tabs, two others beat me to it! 
So instead I'll just say this:

Most of the players in this game are friendly and helpful! Please don't feel bad about being new, everyone was at one time, we all understand. 
If you ask just about anyone ingame about anything politely, you will probably get the help you need.

...If there is a need to counter this criminal activity and "boring tea sipping good-guy guilds" don't want to help out then may I suggest some set up a good roleplaying guild of "good guys" that are "Spanish-Inquisition-good"  or  "Vlad-the-Impaler-good".. The kind of good guys that will hunt down criminals and make them suffer endless torture for the tender love of the gods.    

I have had this very same idea. (Although without the religious overtones...)
We have been playing less than 2 years, and we would appreciate any advice more experienced players would be willing to give, but this is the direction our new guild is taking.  
http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=35593.0