You would still need to rewrite the bot though, even if there was a rotation API, wouldn't you?
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:19 AM, YiFei zhuyifei1999@gmail.com wrote:
That doesn't really answer Brion's question. What would prevent it from continuing to run while it is being rewritten?
lack of time.
(commenting on this as I tried to debug the code previously) The code currently:
- is independent from any maintained mw api libraries
- use self defined api parameters
- uses php's curl, which has quite weird https support
- has doc strings in de, which I can't read
- generates tons of php warnings
- and does not check whether upload / page save is successfully done or not
The bot have failed when:
- a few weeks ago from the https switch
- currently from session / token-related issue (not entirely sure)
Rewrite attempts have been made, but:
- the code barely make any sense (not OOP, reduced indentation, tons of
bugs, etc.)
- lack of time to do complete rewrite
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:05:11 -0500 From: dgarry@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an
image
Hi Steinsplitter,
On 16 July 2015 at 09:00, Steinsplitter Wiki <
steinsplitter-wiki@live.com>
wrote:
Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it
from
working?
It is very old and bad written and needs a complete rewrite.
That doesn't really answer Brion's question. What would prevent it from continuing to run while it is being rewritten?
Dan
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