Re: [babel] info model: configurability of intervals

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Fri, 26 February 2021 21:07 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>> IIRC, Juliusz had suggested human admins were likely to have little
>> understanding of what was needed and the implementation was in a better
>> position to adjust values appropriately based on metrics.
>
> Yes.  Experience shows that human admins like to tweak things, and that
> a lot of time they get their tweaks wrong.
>
>> But based WG list traffic, there doesn't seem to be a strong WG belief
>> that we need to support human configuration of intervals at this time.
>
> I would tend to agree.
>
>> Would it be ok if we left these read-only current-value interval
>> parameters as is and didn't add any other parameters to support
>> configuration, at this time?
>
> Yes.

Fine with me as well :)

-Toke