On 27/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/27/06, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If there's any reasonable purpose served by
editing the template,
there's no reason to hesitate. If something puts too much load on the
servers, the devs will edit the software so that you can't do it or
it's not a problem; see, for instance, recategorizing templates (which
is handled in a job queue rather than being executed right away) or
transcluding templates in sigs (they're automatically substed). Devs
handle the backend, don't worry about it.
Could this be written up in red writing somewhere? It seems to be very
common that non-devs tell each other not to do things because "it's
bad for performance" etc.
Here's a quotable post, then.
Site operations and keep-alive stuff is our concern. "Our" refers to
the development team and the system administration team, but I lump it
all together for this. If something is *needed* in order to get on
with the encyclopaedia-writing, or the dictionary-making, then do it.
If it's unclean, let us know, and if there's an easier method we can
implement to help, we will.
Adopt common sense, of course. If it's plain something could cause
drastic problems, hold fire and check. But don't go running around
screaming "teh servers, teh servers!!!" as an excuse to not do stuff,
that's stupid.
Technical reasons not to do something will be met with technical
enforcement. This position has been upheld by Brion Vibber before, and
I have posted, including this, at least two messages to that effect to
this mailing list.
Rob Church