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From https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/314847/:
Whym
Nov 28 8:22 PMPatch Set 3: Code-Review-1
but I'm not yet convinced that we need to introduce the 'M' qualifier. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147739#2825046 for discussion.
Xqt
Nov 28 10:30 PMPatch Set 3:
the month or minute one? or both?
Whym
9:38 AMPatch Set 3:
I meant to suggest dropping 'M' for month while keeping 'm' for minute.
Xqt
2:34 PMPatch Set 3:
I disagree because months does make much more sense for archiving than minutes but I would keep both.
I thought that 'minute' had been around much longer than 'months', but it looks like I was wrong. As it looks like it was as recent as within a couple of months (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313352/), I would suggest cancelling the addition of both.
In response to:
I think it is more usefull to have a month time identifier than seconds (which we already have) or maybe minutes. I guess it is minor confusing to have both, month ad minutes than having only one of it and you have to assumes what it means.
I'd rather stick with 'd' for 'days' and 'h' for 'hours', which are by far the most commonly used ones. I'm ok with either keeping or abandoning 'y' and 'w' - rarely used but there is no harm. I think both 'M' for months and 'm' for 'minutes' should go, because the risk of confusing people is high while the benefit is low. You can easily use the non-ambiguous 'd' or 'w' instead.
As some evidence for the user's confusion, there are many instances of 'm' like "algo = old(2m)" and "algo = old(1m)" where users presumably used 'm' for 'months', not 'minutes':
We might have to a bit more carefully consider how/when to fade out 's' for 'seconds' (which is why I don't propose removing it yet). But in the case of 'M' and 'm', it is quite new and I think we should cancel the addition before it's too late to do so.
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