I can change this to the github repos, yes, all I need to know is the "schema" of the url. Also, Reedy made the excellent suggestion of Caching results -- which I am working on -- that will also reduce both load time and heavy traffic time.
But actually, working in front of github will be somewhat easier, too, since github has a better REST API. Are all (or most) extensions in Github under https://github.com/wikimedia/ with a "mediawiki-extensions-" prefix? Can I use that as a general rule of thumb? On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Moriel Schottlender <mor...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki > > extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. > > > > I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have > > installed on our MediaWiki require update, and there are even some > > extensions that get so little regular attention that when they do get > > updated, there's no real way of knowing it (unless we check > specifically). > > > > It can be annoying when encountering problems or bugs, and then > discovering > > that one of our extensions (probably the one we least expected) actually > > has an update that fixed this bug. > > > > So, I thought to try and solve this issue with my extension. Since > > MediaWiki's changes are submitted through gerrit, I thought I'd take > > advantage of that and perform a remote check to see if there are any new > > commits that appeared in any of the extensions since they were installed. > > > > > I like the idea of this, but if this is used widely it's going to kill our > gerrit server. It hits gitweb directly. Gitweb calls are uncached and are > fairly expensive to run against our server. We replicate all repositories > to github, and they allow this kind of thing. Is there any way you can > change this to use the github replicas? > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- No trees were harmed in the creation of this post. But billions of electrons, photons, and electromagnetic waves were terribly inconvenienced during its transmission! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
