Another question I have, related to this: are there any audit logs showing who accessed a particular file on the projects directory? So as to see who was the last "maintainer" of a project?
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Martin Domdey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, X! is writing: > "Hi, I am *X!* on Wikipedia, and known as *Yetanotherx* on other > websites. I'm relatively inactive on Wikipedia now, and while I read it > often, I mostly will stick to mainspace work. I no longer maintain my > toolserver tools, those have been passed on to other maintainers. If you > have questions about anything, I still read my talk page though, and > although it may take some time to respond, I will do my best to get back to > you." > > So it seems to be there other maintainers, holding the Xtools up and > maintain them. Who are these maintainers? > > Greetings, > Doc Taxon ... > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 03. Februar 2017 um 23:14 Uhr > *Von:* "Maximilian Doerr" <[email protected]> > *An:* "Wikimedia Labs" <[email protected]> > *Betreff:* Re: [Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries > I cannot explain why xTools will break down when moving to Trusty. > Hedonil, when he wrote it, made it way too environment specific that it > can't even be sneezed at without breaking something. That's why it's > getting rewritten to avoid that. I have no idea what change in the > environment breaks it but it does, and it's safe to assume that xTools is > not the only tool. Anyway if disk space/CPU/RAM are not an issue in regards > to inactive tool maintainers then this proposal is moot. I was just > suggesting something to help keep unused resources free and available. > > Cyberpower678 > English Wikipedia Account Creation Team > English Wikipedia Administrator > Global User Renamer > > > On Feb 3, 2017, at 17:02, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Maximilian Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Because the labs environment is always changing. Moving > >> xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools. > >> Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but > >> just saying. > > > >> […] > > > > But the deprecation of Precise does not cause a tool to > > "suddenly break down", but simply be switched off, with > > about seven months of warning. The next time this will hap- > > pen is April 2019. So IMHO it is unnecessary to create an > > atmosphere where tool developers must assume that their ap- > > plications need constant attention. Breaking changes to the > > Tools environment are and should be rare as they come at the > > price of hundreds or thousands of man-hours. > > > > Tim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Labs-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > >
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