Countdown… what?
Phabricator is somehow a cornucopia of components. One of my favorites is called Countdown. This component literally creates a counter that—well—goes down.
This component fits a couple of needs like:
- enfatize that "tic toc tic toc" sensation to respect a deployment deadline
- remember when an event starts (e.g. the itWikiCon-2020)
Here a live example of the Countdown application in Wikimedia Phabricator:
― from https://secure.phabricator.com/C145
Current situation
The "Can Use Application" of the Countdown application is set to "All (Registered) Users".
This historically made sense to prevent spam creations. Now it does not anymore since Visibility does not affect Creation anymore.
This is a problem: the Countdown application in Wikimedia Phabricator is not visible to logged-out users.nFor example, this section is not available when you are logged-out:
C4 Epochalypse
Problem affecting digital systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer.
| Days | Hours | Minutes | Seconds |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | - |
| Jan 19 2038, 3:14 AM | |||
Proposed change
- Go here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/applications/edit/PhabricatorCountdownApplication/
- Set Can Use Application = set to "Public (No Login Required)"
Actually this would be an appreciated change because @Aklapper kindly created a countdown for T255668: Create a countdown for itWikiCon 2020 call for papers but now the interesteds are not able to share that link and appreciate that work: even if the countdown itself is public, the application is visible only to registered users.
Bonus point: resolving this before Jul 30 23:58 will allow to enjoy the itWikiCon 2020 countdown. I mean, at least until Jul 30 23:59 :^)
Bonus point: resolving this before itWikiCon 2022 would be appreciated.
Bonus point: resolving this before the next itWikiCon 2023 would be appreciated. So, before 27 October 2023.
Bonus point: resolving this before Jan 19 2038, 04:14 would be appreciated. So before the Countdown "C4"
