On 11/22/07, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aye, but the "carefully maintaned" stable
toolserver tools should be
efficient, too (if the task can be efficiently done, of course, the
criteria for inclusion would be greater).
In which case they should be moved to the main servers, and in
particular have access to the same (guaranteed non-lagged) databases
as everything else.
In fact, i'm for rewriting some of these tools in
the moving.
Why? Current tools are one man's work. They work, but can be a bit
{{esoteric}}, with hacks added on backend changes and only the author
fully knows it.
By rewriting them between all the maintaners, they all know the baby
since birth. It's easier knowing a check-usage when you have seen the
functions grow from one sql query, than starting with a teenager.
In that case, they should be rewritten as proper MediaWiki extensions
(if appropriate), and proposed for enabling as such on the application
servers.