Re: [mb-users] Edit Expiration Times (MBS-2614, MBS-4594)

2012/8/15 Calvin Walton <[email protected]>

> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 21:29 -0500, Brandon LeBlanc wrote:
> > Hey Gang!
> >
> > So, I'm working on MBS-2614 [1] and MBS-4594 [2] and I have a question
> > for the users. The gist of the issues is that when edits expire, be it
> > by the expiration date or the unanimous rule, they aren't closed and
> > applied immediately. Edits remain open for voting until when they are
> > closed at the top of the hour by ModBot, provided there are no bugs in
> > the server preventing their application. Edits that have expired but
> > are still open display "Already expired," which is confusing for some
> > who are unfamiliar with how our edit system works.
> >
> > There are four proposed solutions to these tickets:
> > 1) Make edits close and apply as soon as they expire.
>
> This would be the ideal option, but I'm actually a little curious about
> how it'll be implemented (maybe this is more appropriate for the dev
> list, but...)
>
> In order to expire edits, you need some sort of backend process that
> notices when the edit expires, and does the required application steps.
> This process is currently called "ModBot" and runs once every hour - and
> is a fairly heavy job when it does run. Do you plan to have some sort of
> reduced-functionality ModBot-like process that runs more often? Even so,
> I doubt you could get the delay down below a couple minutes or so.
>
> I suppose the other idea might be to trick people - if someone views a
> resource that has a pending expired edit, you could apply the edit
> immediately in the web server process before rendering the page.
>
> (The other case, making an edit apply immediately upon receiving e.g. a
> 3rd unanimous yes vote, would be much easier to handle, this could just
> be applied when the 3rd vote is received in the same way as an
> autoeditor approval applies immediately.)
>

I agree that solution1, although preferable, may be too costly to
implement. Couldn't solution 4 be improved by displaying the hour at which
ModBot should apply the edit?

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