If the script is optimized per Brion recommendations, I think we could execute it immediately... I don't really know why ops didn't do that, I was in though that it's cronned to run certain jobs
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote: > There are several maintenance scripts waiting to be run on many wikis > since years ago: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.** > org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=**29782&hide_resolved=1<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=29782&hide_resolved=1> > The biggest offenders are: > * > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=16112<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16112>which > breaks tons of special pages; > * > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=33253<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33253>which > makes the article count on those wikis completely broken after the > count method change. > > The fact that we could/should find a perfect and permanent solution for > those problems doesn't mean that we shouldn't improve the situation given > that we can. > The fact that we can't run them every month as we once did doesn't mean > that we shouldn't run them say every 5 years (which would be an > improvement) or after big changes (such as the count method). > Even the longest scripts of that sort, when run by pdhanda some months > ago, took only some days for all wikis and didn't do any damage. > > Nemo > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
