Most operator are volunteers and don't have time to change the code every month because there is a change in the api. Because of this devs should keep the api backward-compatible. Also wondering why wee need this "new" api. The old one was imho perfectly.
Was the new api coded by WMF or by volunteers? > I feel that bot operators should actively pay attention to the technical > aspects of the community and the mailing lists. Sorry, i disagree. Bot operators are volunteers and not payed staffers. Most of them having a job and real live. -- Steinsplitter > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:50:48 +0300 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for > action=query will change at the end of this month > > I feel that bot operators should actively pay attention to the technical > aspects of the community and the mailing lists. So, the bot operator who > never updates their software, doesn't pay attention to the announcements, > and ignores api warnings should be blocked after the deadline. Bot > operators do not operate in a vacuum, and should never run bots just for > the sake of running them. > Community should always be able to find and communicate with the bot > operators. > Obviously we should not make sudden changes (except in the > security/breaking matters), and try to make the process as easy as > possible. The rawcontinue param is exactly that, simply adding it will keep > the logic as before. > > Lastly, I again would like to promote the idea discussed at the hackathon > -- a client side minimalistic library that bigger frameworks like pywikibot > rely on, and that is designed in part by the core developers. See the > proposal at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minimalistic_MW_API_Client_Lib_Specification > On Jun 3, 2015 2:29 PM, "John Mark Vandenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... > > > I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more > > > than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are > > > responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, > > > please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks. > > > > Thank you Brad for doing impact analysis and providing a list of the > > 71 bots with more than 10,000 problems per week. We can try to solve > > those by working with the bot operators. > > > > If possible, could you compile a list of bots affected at a lower > > threshold - maybe 1,000. That will give us a better idea of the scale > > of bots operators that will be affected when this lands - currently in > > one months time. > > > > Will the deploy date be moved back if the impact doesnt diminish by > > bots being fixed? > > > > -- > > John Vandenberg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
