Last modified: 2014-11-07 10:09:17 UTC
The shared version of pywikibot on tools.wmflabs.org is broken. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67488 At least it should be reverted to a working revision It is broken since 5 days, and needs an urgent fix. Thanks, Yann
The change for this bug on pywikibot was merged three weeks ago. cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67488 Why is this still not fixed?
I understand John's comment #4 at bug #67488 to mean that the change that /broke/ pywikibot was merged three weeks ago and that there is no fix merged yet.
Yann, if your bot/tool/whatever is broken, don't use the shared pywikibot version. Clone the repository, and use the commit before one that introduced the breakage. And update it yourself to avoid breaking changes like this.
Well, that defeats the purpose to have a shared pywikibot entirely if it can't work properly for normal work. Beside, it works before, so it should be fixed.
AFAIUI, pywikibot's master branch is supposed to be stable and uses a review process to achieve that. So it's certainly not grossly negligent to rely on that. I haven't seen anyone arguing that this bug shouldn't be fixed and in fact John seems to attempting to do just that. I'm sure he appreciates any help with reproducing the faulty behaviour or rectifying it, so don't be shy.
Assigning to jvdb; this appears to be fixed but I'll leave acknowledgement to him.
This should have been fixed a while ago. Reopen if there is a problem.
