On 02/17/2013 11:10 AM, Platonides wrote:
>We do require admin interaction and manual "review" to add
>feeds to Planet Wikimedia, and still get turn-around times
>in the range of minutes, so I don't think that we should
>spend much thought in optimizing the creation times of new
>tools:-).
Well, perhaps if it was just a few minutes..., but zero-time is still
infinitely faster. You don't want to put off that developer that awoke
at 5 am with a neat idea for a tool just because nobody was there to
approve its creation.:)
I work under the design philosophy that any end-user service that
requires human intervention for its normal use case is a bug that needs
fixing. There may be cases where fixing the bug is actually more
trouble than living with it (as was suggested regarding bugtracking),
but it's a bug nonetheless.
Automating is a fixed cost; manual processing is an unbounded cost
against a finite resource. :-)
-- Marc
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