Currently ForeginApiRepo is hardcoded to cache HTTP responses for at most 1 hour (And siteinfo for 2) [ With adaptive ttl that may be less].
Re-fetching this data is really expensive. 1 hour is probably insufficient for many users. This should at the very least be configurable.
For clarity i'm referring to third argument of ForeignApiRepo::httpGetCached
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| filerepo: Increase ttl for foreign metadata to 4h and make configurable | mediawiki/core | master | +22 -1 |
Additionally, siteinfo is only cached for 2 hours, and that's something that changes basically never. I think we should default to 1 week for that.
Change 731257 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brian Wolff; author: Brian Wolff):
[mediawiki/core@master] Change default ForeignAPIRepo metadata cache to 4 hours and allow override
Change 731257 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] filerepo: Increase ttl for foreign metadata to 4h and make configurable