On 11/22/07, Platonides platonides@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.