Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I misunderstood the problem, evidently. I thought it was a one-off
> thing due to software bugs the sysadmins didn't know about. It seems
> it's more like a known, ongoing problem whose cause isn't understood
> yet, so there's no point in bugging people about it all the time, no.
Although, I still think a "oldest job"
statistic might be useful.
Not only for statistics, it would also provide users with an
opportunity to see whether it is due to the job queue or a
bug if a category membership or a link/template relationship
is not updated soon after the actual edit to article.
In the same way it would be nice to extend "?action=purge"
to log any discrepancies it encounters between the pre- and
post-purge states to ease debugging.
Tim