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  • (Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:28PM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:28PM (#10838) Journal

    This -- we don't want a backlog accumulating in the queue, but we also don't want a two or three stories dumped in 5 minutes apart, followed by a couple hour gap. A feedback system controlling the time between stories can take care of this easily. This being SN, I'm sure there's plenty of engineers with at least a smidgeon of controls knowledge to help you tune the loop as needed, but I'd start with a proportional feedback system.

    Bonus points if you can push breaking news stories straight through at once, but have the automatic release timer be reset at that point. So if the rate-limit currently works out to 1 story per 30 minutes, and you push a breaking story 28 minutes after an automatic story, the next automatic story comes in 30 minutes after the breaking story, not 2 minutes after.

    (Any SN admins reading: If you've got or can conveniently data on when each story was approved for release, I'd appreciate a look at it. I'm thinking about throwing together a proof-of-concept auto-release simulator; I can obviously scrape SN for the times they were released, which will give me the average time, but I wonder about the burstiness of the approval process. Since policy has been to future-date articles to avoid burstiness in the output, I can't recover that info from this side.)

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  • (Score: 2) by mattie_p on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:53PM

    by mattie_p (13) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:53PM (#10858) Journal

    We have that data. The editor's username is on each edit, with the timestamp of approval. If you want to play around, get a dev VM going or play around on slashcott.

    • (Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:02PM

      by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:02PM (#10956) Journal

      Thanks, mattie_p. One more reason I need to get around to installing that vm...