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Early purge flag for rendering errors
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Description

Temporary server problems can cause errors in rendering of images and
math; the cached entries then sit around for hours/days/weeks, and
people whine about them long after the problem is solved.

It would be valuable if such errors could set a flag on the
ParserOutput object for an early cache expiration.

(Some limited time, rather than no caching at all, is probably wise
to limit load during the problem period.)


Version: 1.7.x
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz5658

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:11 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz5658.
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(In reply to Brion Vibber from comment #0)

Temporary server problems can cause errors in rendering of images and
math; the cached entries then sit around for hours/days/weeks, and
people whine about them long after the problem is solved.

I guess this request is still valid - see e.g. bug 61041 for a recent Math example.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
Aklapper removed a subscriber: wikibugs-l-list.