I understand the reason to use /rc if I were creating a new application. I don't understand the rationale for spending the time to switch over an existing application though.
Having diffs (or other new data) as part of the stream would be a big reason to switch however. I apologize for using wiki-research for this conversation. It seems more suited for wikipedia-tech in hindsight. > On Apr 7, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >> That wasn't the most compelling argument for migrating. But thanks for the >> response: > > Heh. The compelling arguments for migration to me are: > > 1. This gives you structured JSON, no need to futz around with IRC > colors. This is a big one, I think > 2. Easier to extend from the mediawiki side, so more events should be > easier to add. > 3. Far easier to consume rcstream than IRC Feeds (Websockets vs IRC) > 4. Running our own IRC server is not the most fun thing in the world, > and our ops team would like to not have to keep doing that forever. > > I find (1) and (3) most compelling - look at the client examples on > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream#Client, they're vastly > simpler than similar examples for IRC > > > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
