On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:47, Tim Starling wrote:
Is it just for Brisbane, Queensland?
An easier thing to do might be to request the change be made from the backend instead.
No, it's not just for Brisbane, Queensland, it's for whatever I need it for in the future. In the near future, there's a few other cities and towns I want to move. And it wouldn't be easier in terms of human effort, since the bot's already written and ready to go. It's only ~70 lines -- it's rather scary how easy these things are, especially since it's one of the first things I've ever written in perl and it only took me a few hours. Of course there's the issue of swamping RC -- if someone is happy to do it from the backend to reduce the annoyance level, then that's alright with me.
-- Tim Starling
We'd be much better off if we add the needed functionality on the serverside, I believe.
If you could describe exactly what the problem is that you wrote the code to solve, that would be very helpful.
I'm not saying "don't ever run this"; I'm saying that we should think about the consequences of this.
I really think we should err on the side of not worrying so much about "fixing" links, if the redirects go to the right place. Redirects don't affect the functionality for the user, and because of that, there should be a degree of intransigence about adding complexity/running bots to fix a problem that isn't much of a problem.
Please send me the code.