The current maintenance script in PageImages will run against all titles in the database.
During a code review it was suggested we would benefit from only generating page images for articles who had been touched since a given date to avoid re-generating all page images in the event of incidents that impact a certain timeframe.
Any changes to page images algorithm are extremely risky without such a script as it provides us no way to respond to problems easily.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T88633 [EPIC] Image-positioning service for storing and retrieving image focal points | |||
| Resolved | Jdlrobson-WMF | T91683 Allow editors control of the page image | |||
| Resolved | Jdlrobson | T162936 Improve developer happiness in reading web maintained extensions | |||
| Resolved | Jdlrobson | T152252 PageImages maintenance script should be more flexible |
@ovasileva given this was an actionable from a Wikimedia incident should we consider this for the sprint after next?
We attempted to estimate this, but estimates ranged from 2-8 based on the experience levels of the team. I suggest @pmiazga and myself have a go at expanding the description here to make this more clear and estimatable for next time.
Change 423742 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pmiazga; owner: Pmiazga):
[mediawiki/extensions/PageImages@master] Add later-than option to PageImages InitImageData maitenance script
Change 423742 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/PageImages@master] Add later-than option to PageImages InitImageData maitenance script
@pmiazga and I sat down and just did this. If anyone is curious in the how take a look at the patch - it was super simple. This can skip design and QA review as it's purely technical.
@ovasileva I'll let you sign this off so that you're aware this has been done and this no longer blocks T91683.