| Smalyshev added a comment. |
I'm going to close this ticket for now because it is not actionable and there is nothing we can do for now, except breaking all hashes again, which is what this ticket actually aims to avoid.
I'd be OK with breaking the hashes one more time, if it's the last time. Because we *will* inevitably break them again, but that'd happen without notification, mess up the database and there would be no way to detect it, and no way to avoid it.
The issue is not new. We are aware of this problem in the code for years now.
And still not fixed. I'm not sure closing tickets for it is the best way to deal with it? If we have a problem, it should be documented as existing problem.
Replacing hashes with GUIDs is, even if I support the idea, an even bigger breaking change
Again, I don't mind one-time intentional breakage, if it prevents many accidental breakages in the future.
Cc: thiemowmde, daniel, Aklapper, Smalyshev, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, Avner, debt, Gehel, Jonas, FloNight, Xmlizer, Izno, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, JeroenDeDauw, Mbch331
_______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
