On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 11:27 AM <nosebagbear(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We don't have the capacity to handle a big bulk increase in pending
changes as proposed by gbfv on en-wiki and presumably others as well - and
making very short-length blocks on proxies would require a major increase
in Steward time, which a quick review of the average myriad steward
backlogs indicates is not really a resource in sufficient supply to be
profligate with.
Most of the steward blocks I see are already less than a month, and
sometimes less than a day. (I'm not sure how they're deciding which length
to use.) See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303774 regarding the
frequency of blocks.