Use cases for Sites handling change (Re: Wikidata blockers weekly update)

On Aug 10, 2012, at 6:50 PM, wikitech-l-request <at> lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:39:40 -0700
> From: Rob Lanphier <robla <at> wikimedia.org>
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> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Use cases for Sites handling change (Re:
>    Wikidata    blockers weekly update)
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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm starting a separate thread, because this is an important topic and
> I don't think it's well served as a subtopic of a "Wikidata blockers"
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> To recap, Jeroen submitted changeset 14295 in Gerrit
> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14295/> with the following
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>> This commit introduces a new table to hold site data and configuration,
>> objects to represent the table, site objects and lists of sites and