Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
What's been hacked in for now is that a fetched watchlist will be cached for an hour, so someone clicking the button over and over won't load things down. The limits can be adjusted here and there if necessary.
That's great, thanks a lot!
Unless someone would like to lend the benefit of their experience in getting the code set up and actually demonstrate something, it's just not going to happen; code doesn't write itself.
I just learnt the basics about PostgreSQL, though. Studying the weekly dump was not enough for understanding the database structure (of course); all you can see at the first glance that some special MySQL data types are in use.
I guess first I'll have to browse the Meta wiki - I hate web browsing ;)