On 02/25/2013 09:21 PM, Luca de Alfaro wrote:
I am writing this message as we hope this might be of interest, and as we would be quite happy to find people willing to collaborate. Is anybody interested in developing a GUI for it and talk to us about what API we should have for retrieving this authorship information? Is there anybody interested in helping to move the code to production-ready stage?
Are you planning to run this live in production (i.e. 1-2 seconds on every save)?
I think people would be reluctant to slow writes down further. You could potentially do it deferred, or in the job queue, but I think it might make more sense on something like Wikimedia Labs (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs)
Did you try doing it with no caching (similar to git blame, though I know it's a different algorithm)? I'm wondering how much benefit you get from the cached info.
Matt Flaschen