On 11/13/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/12/06, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
Auto-expiring protection sounds like a very interesting idea -- has anybody submitted this to Bugzilla?
That would be a waste of developer time. If you want it on your project it would be trivial to sysop a bot account and have a bot perform it.
Perform what exactly? The point of auto-expiry is that the protecting sysop would be able to set the term of protection. How would you achieve the same flexibility with a simple bot? Not to mention that deployment -- both in the Wikimedia family and outside -- would be much easier if it is a regular MediaWiki feature.