Last modified: 2014-07-31 02:16:54 UTC
Basically we should be able to notice if a global rename takes longer than say 10 minutes (maybe an hour for a large edit count) without waiting for a steward or the user to notice. This can be something simple on labs probably.
While I totally agree that we need something like this, I still think that 10 minutes or even an hour aren't enough time... during high load or if a global account has a lot of local ones it's totally ok for a rename to take a few hours (maybe 3?). We shouldn't make people go crazy with false (to early) alerts.
I made how long to wait configurable, so we can adjust as needed. Setup a tool on toollabs ("gblrenamemon"), which will email me (and anyone else who wants to be added to the list!) if a rename takes over 3 hours to complete. The cron runs every 20 minutes. Source code is in labs/tools/gblrenamemon.
