As mentioned in the TechCom radar email last week, there will be a public IRC discussion on the future of rev_parent_id on Wednesday, 2018-06-06 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET).
The RFCs original title was "Use ar_page_id to determine the parent IDs for undeleted revisions" <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193690>. However, the discussion has drifted quite a bit, and is now touching on questions around the size differences shown on the history and contributions pages, which is the only thing that rev_parent_id is used for. Perhaps we should have filed a separate ticket, but at this point, that would just have meant splitting the conversation, and creating more confusion... Anyway, in preparation of the RFC discussion, here are again the main question that need answering: * Can we do without rev_parent_id entirely? Can we live without the size info on Special:Contributions, or can we query it cheaply enough? * Do we want to record the original "edit as intended", and if yes, where? * On a side note, what's the best way to detect a page's first revision, and do we still need that if we have the page creation log (and recentchanges). I have tried to summarize the discussion so far, with the available options and considerations, at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193690#4254713>. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
