On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure what good a complaining bot would do,
any more than a
complaining user which we seem to have plenty of. Deleting the jobs was
not a solution, and can't really be repeated without breaking things.
There's still a fair bit more programming to do.
I misunderstood the problem, evidently. I thought it was a one-off
thing due to software bugs the sysadmins didn't know about. It seems
it's more like a known, ongoing problem whose cause isn't understood
yet, so there's no point in bugging people about it all the time, no.