Hey guys,
I wanted you to be aware that the translation notification extension is currently broken.
People are getting multiple notifications about the same translation despite only one notification request going out. Some people have been getting 4 or more requests.
I am really sorry for the flooding of talk pages, I have only just become aware of it. I'm going to recommend to all the translation admins that the use of the notification extension is avoided at all costs until we can identify the cause of the bug.
Ill keep you guys updated on this with this thread and ill post a link to the bug asap.
So I promised I would keep you guys in the loop.
The extension still is sending out repeating notifications a day after the last request. As as a result we have blocked my meta staff account and locked out the translation notification bot that delivers local notifications to you guys in hope that this will at least stem more duplicates
The main bug for this issue is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42715 but some of us believe that its related to issues with the jobqueue (see: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42614)
Any questions, let me know :)
Seddon
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey guys,
I wanted you to be aware that the translation notification extension is currently broken.
People are getting multiple notifications about the same translation despite only one notification request going out. Some people have been getting 4 or more requests.
I am really sorry for the flooding of talk pages, I have only just become aware of it. I'm going to recommend to all the translation admins that the use of the notification extension is avoided at all costs until we can identify the cause of the bug.
Ill keep you guys updated on this with this thread and ill post a link to the bug asap.
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Joseph Seddon
Fundraiser Translation Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
An analysis of what happened was circulated a few days ago and now published: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/TranslationNotifications_issues_2012-12 It's fairly technical but it's supposed to help improve for the future, although so far it wasn't acted upon: «TL;DR: Changes in MW core exposed a bug in TranslationNotifications. The same bug is also present in other extensions. Many people participated in preventing further damage and fixing the issue. More work remains to be done.»
We still don't know if the translation notifications should now work or what's going to happen to the job queue, nor how/if todays' jobqueue disaster (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65703 ) may impact it.
Nemo
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
An analysis of what happened was circulated a few days ago and now published: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/TranslationNotifications_issues_2012-12 It's fairly technical but it's supposed to help improve for the future, although so far it wasn't acted upon: «TL;DR: Changes in MW core exposed a bug in TranslationNotifications. The same bug is also present in other extensions. Many people participated in preventing further damage and fixing the issue. More work remains to be done.»
Since that report is not on a generally editable wiki, let me note here instead that while it gives the impression that the first duplicate notifications were observed at the end of November, this has in fact happened at least twice before, in July and August:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Translation_requests#Double_notificatio...
Examples: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=3964877&oldid=3964809 , https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=4049992&oldid=4049949
Back then, the time between the redundant notifications was much shorter, so the reason may have been a different one.
We still don't know if the translation notifications should now work or what's going to happen to the job queue, nor how/if todays' jobqueue disaster (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65703 ) may impact it.
Thanks to everyone who worked to resolve the present bug! I have a small notification (Portuguese only) to send out soon, which should make a good test case.
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