It's a recurring problem. Tool Y becomes popular, then becomes
unmaintained. Other developers/WMCS/Toolforge roots/Standards Committee
investigate, and find that everything is All Rights Reserved. Then the bot
task/tool is dead until someone rewrites it, often years later.
Happened most recently
Hi Kunal,
Can you explain here and/or on
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_sweep why you
want to do this?
Maarten
On 29-12-2022 10:02, Kunal Mehta wrote:
Hi everyone,
tl;dr: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_sweep
It has been nearly a
It seems like all of those checks could be automated.
Have we reached the point where "source code published somewhere" is synonymous
with "in a publicly accessible git repo"?
> On Dec 29, 2022, at 4:02 AM, Kunal Mehta wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> tl;dr:
Hi everyone,
tl;dr: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Tool_sweep
It has been nearly a decade since Toolforge came online. Since then,
there have a been a lot of improvements to tool infrastructure, but many
tools have not yet caught up. For example, new tools are required
