[Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries

[Huji Lee]

Another question I have, related to this: are there any audit logs showing
who accessed a particular file on the projects directory? So as to see who
was the last "maintainer" of a project?

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Martin Domdey <animalia at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> Hi, X! is writing:
> "Hi, I am *X!* on Wikipedia, and known as *Yetanotherx* on other
> websites. I'm relatively inactive on Wikipedia now, and while I read it
> often, I mostly will stick to mainspace work. I no longer maintain my
> toolserver tools, those have been passed on to other maintainers. If you
> have questions about anything, I still read my talk page though, and
> although it may take some time to respond, I will do my best to get back to
> you."
>
> So it seems to be there other maintainers, holding the Xtools up and
> maintain them. Who are these maintainers?
>
> Greetings,
> Doc Taxon ...
>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 03. Februar 2017 um 23:14 Uhr
> *Von:* "Maximilian Doerr" <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com>
> *An:* "Wikimedia Labs" <labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries
> I cannot explain why xTools will break down when moving to Trusty.
> Hedonil, when he wrote it, made it way too environment specific that it
> can't even be sneezed at without breaking something. That's why it's
> getting rewritten to avoid that. I have no idea what change in the
> environment breaks it but it does, and it's safe to assume that xTools is
> not the only tool. Anyway if disk space/CPU/RAM are not an issue in regards
> to inactive tool maintainers then this proposal is moot. I was just
> suggesting something to help keep unused resources free and available.
>
> Cyberpower678
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
> English Wikipedia Administrator
> Global User Renamer
>
> > On Feb 3, 2017, at 17:02, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Because the labs environment is always changing. Moving
> >> xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools.
> >> Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but
> >> just saying.
> >
> >> […]
> >
> > But the deprecation of Precise does not cause a tool to
> > "suddenly break down", but simply be switched off, with
> > about seven months of warning. The next time this will hap-
> > pen is April 2019. So IMHO it is unnecessary to create an
> > atmosphere where tool developers must assume that their ap-
> > plications need constant attention. Breaking changes to the
> > Tools environment are and should be rare as they come at the
> > price of hundreds or thousands of man-hours.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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