What happens?:
Import sources can edit war with each other.
What should have happened instead?:
No edit warring from imports
Example:
For https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/toolforge-authors/history imports from https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/toolinfo/v1.2/toolinfo.json and https://authors.toolforge.org/toolinfo.json are causing reverts multiple times a day.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| toolhub: bump container to 2022-12-14-185830-production | operations/deployment-charts | master | +1 -1 |
In a normal situation there is no edit war as the import process crawls the URLs in a deterministic order and enforces a constraint that the first import of a given toolinfo record name wins.
The root cause of this edit warring is a bug where the https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/toolinfo/v1.2/toolinfo.json URL is timing out multiple times a day and dropping the "primary" record from https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/id/authors when that happens. I wrote https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/toolhub/+/852301 as an attempt at fixing this, but apparently never actually remembered to deploy it. :/
Change 868183 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):
[operations/deployment-charts@master] toolhub: bump container to 2022-12-14-185830-production
Change 868183 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/deployment-charts@master] toolhub: bump container to 2022-12-14-185830-production