There were 132 days for anybody to review and comment on the technical
approach in the UID class.

— Patrick

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Aaron Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some notes (copied from private email):
> * It only creates the lock file the first time.
> * The functions with different bits are not just the same thing with more
> bits. Trying to abstract more just made it more confusing.
> * The point is to also have something with better properties than uniqid.
> Also I ran large for loops calling those functions and timed it on my laptop
> back when I was working on that and found it reasonable (if you needed to
> insert faster you'd probably have DB overload anyway).
> * hostid seems pretty common and is on the random wmf servers I tested a
> while back. If there is some optimization there for third parties that don't
> have it, of course it would be welcomed.
> ----
> At any rate, I changed the revert summary though Timo beat me to actually
> merging the revert. My main issue is the authorship breakage and the fact
> that the "split of" change wasn't +2'd by a different person. I was  also
> later asked to add tests (36816), which should ideally would have been
> required in the first patch rather than as a second one; not a big deal but
> it's a plus to consolidating the changes after a revert.
>
> That said, the change was actually a class split off verbatim from
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16696/ (which was pending for ages), so
> it's not like the change was in gerrit for a split-second and then merged. I
> think the process should have been better here though it's not a huge deal
> as it may seem at first glance.
>
>
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