https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838
--- Comment #20 from Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> 2012-06-10 20:38:11 UTC --- > Why not? http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Details_of_data_retention > Overall, it is a much more theoretically reliable and secure idea to utilize > MW's existing logging functionality to store authentication requests and their > results rather then to cache them in memory pending the user's next visit. If > a > user doesn't log into Wikipedia for a week, and the threshold for email is > also > a week, then that memcached key is there for a whole seven days, which is > generally not what memcached is used for (or at least not what I use it for). memcached at WMF is assumed to never lose entries due to memory pressure. The use of that less-reliable method is on purpose :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
