On 9/27/09 4:15 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Michael Dalemdale@wikimedia.org wrote:
...right... we would want to avoid lots of live hacks. But I think we want to avoid lots of live hacks anyway. A serious javascript bug would only affect the pages that where generated in thous hours that it was a bug was present not the 30 days that your characterizing the lag time of page generation.
Do you have stats on that?... its surprising to me that pages are re-generated that rarely... How do central notice campaigns work?
They insert the notice client-side using JavaScript. The HTML served is thus always the same.
Yeah, it's kind of tricky to do right; but if you can keep the loader consistent and compatible, and have predictable expirations on the JS, such things can work pretty reliably.
-- brion