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Backend parameter

@Majavah: According to the latest version of the documentation (edited by you), there should be a --backend parameter / backend YAML key, which should be one of kubernetes. This doesn’t make much sense, if there’s no real choice, don’t ask people to choose. Couldn’t we just get rid of the backend parameter altogether? (Or is there a second backend? The documentation of extra_args speaks about most backends, which means there are so many backends that we can’t list all of them?) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:25, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi Thanks for the ping. I'd like to keep the --backend mentioned here at least until this patch is deployed since without that webservice will give out a warning if that param is missing. For extra_args, it should have been referring to webservice types and backends. Fixed in Special:Diff/2159625. Taavi (talk!) 20:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Majavah: Of course, if the script itself asks people to choose, it should be documented that way. I hope it will entirely go away eventually, but no hurries, and in any case, the code should be updated before the documentation.

In the extra_args docs, the word backend still appears, aren’t the extra arguments passed to the web service? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:23, 17 March 2024 (UTC)