On 11/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/12/06, Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Auto-expiring protection sounds like a very interesting idea -- has anybody
> submitted this to Bugzilla?
That would be a waste of developer time. If you want
it on your
project it would be trivial to sysop a bot account and have a bot
perform it.
Perform what exactly? The point of auto-expiry is that the protecting
sysop would be able to set the term of protection. How would you
achieve the same flexibility with a simple bot? Not to mention that
deployment -- both in the Wikimedia family and outside -- would be
much easier if it is a regular MediaWiki feature.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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