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::::The significant part is {{tpq|let me get the bot working}}, not setting up source control. It took me five minutes to create the repository and package the script. Requiring someone to invest a significant amount of time developing code ''prior'' to approving a project is the issue. This wasn't a ten line user script, it was a significant investment of my free time in the month since project was approved. [[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] ([[User talk:Daniel Quinlan|talk]]) 21:19, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
:::::@[[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] Thank you. My apologies for the gruff tone I inadvertently adopted. This is just something that pushes my buttons and I should not have taken it out on you. [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 23:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
::::::I've kicked off a discussion at [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy#Open_source_bots]]; let's continue there if people have feelings about this. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 03:55, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
The bot is running now. The code review by {{noping|Novem Linguae}} highlighted a few areas for improvement, especially improving some method names for clarity, which I'm addressing. There are also several cases where the bot won’t reprotect an article but where a notification might be helpful. To address this, I plan to add a user talk page notification to the administrator who performed the expired protection, but only for those cases.
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