Last modified: 2009-05-08 15:22:33 UTC
I just edited some highly used templates on Commons (among others, PD-old, used about 30 thousand times, and PD-Art, used about 15 thousand times). When saving, i got a "sorry we have a problem" error, but checking the template again showed the edit went though. But looking at Special:Statistics, nothing went into the job queue. This problem seems to occur consistently with highly used templates. My guess is that the query used to find pages to update and/or insert them into the queue takes too long and gets shot down. This problem defeats the purpose of the job queue, IMHO... It's critical to a project of mine that this works (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:License_meta-tags is you like). But also generally, this causes inconsistency in the database. Since we have this feature, people have started relying on it...
Until a good solution for this is found, it would be nice if at least the table updates for the template itself would be commited before the job-queue insert is attempted. That way, the template would at least show up in the right categories, etc, even if pages including the template do not get re-parsed.
I got a "Zero Sized Reply" :/ on PD-old but the edit got through: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:PD-old&diff=1999686&oldid=1775931 no dberror in our logs :(
The jobqueue should be populated (at least now), each job row is committed individually
OK, have a fix for this. I'll commit after some more testing.
Fixed in r40741
Reverted by siebrand in r40472, caused division by zero.
Er, r40742, that is.
But it was re-reverted by Aaron in r40745, so I discover once again that I should read through *all* my e-mail before believing any of it. :P
How come this is marked as FIXED? It's still a problem on Commons. Is the fix in a newer version?
