https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68986

Bug ID: 68986 Summary: high lag during log initialisation Product: Pywikibot Version: core (2.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: jayvdb@gmail.com Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

If initialisation is going to be slowed down due to server lag, the user should be informed.

$ python pwb.py featured Sleeping for 120.0 seconds, 2014-08-01 11:02:01 ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "pwb.py", line 143, in <module> run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu) File "pwb.py", line 67, in run_python_file exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__) File "scripts/featured.py", line 622, in <module> main() File "scripts/featured.py", line 603, in main for arg in pywikibot.handleArgs(): File ".../pywikibot/bot.py", line 648, in handleArgs init_handlers() File ".../pywikibot/bot.py", line 242, in init_handlers writelogheader() File ".../pywikibot/bot.py", line 274, in writelogheader log(u'SITE VERSION: %s' % unicode(site.live_version())) File ".../pywikibot/site.py", line 1278, in live_version versionstring = self.siteinfo['generator'] File ".../pywikibot/site.py", line 1184, in siteinfo self._getsiteinfo() File ".../pywikibot/site.py", line 1116, in _getsiteinfo sidata = sirequest.submit() File ".../pywikibot/data/api.py", line 505, in submit self._data = super(CachedRequest, self).submit() File ".../pywikibot/data/api.py", line 405, in submit self.site.throttle.lag(int(lag.group("lag"))) File ".../pywikibot/throttle.py", line 310, in lag time.sleep(wait) KeyboardInterrupt <type 'exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt'> CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort

Ideally, server version should be fetched and logged asynchronously.

This is similar to the repo log version, for which was added a config var to bypass. (log_pywiki_repo_version = False)