I can't say when because I don't know. It depends on when the export stuff is done. There certainly won't be a gap between a shutting down and any export functionality during which you can't get to your data.
All I can offer is "stay tuned", and my word that we're trying to do the best we can for you. Alex On 1 December 2010 07:27, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alex, but when will the switch be flicked? i.e. what is the > earliest date I might come in to work and see: > > "Sorry, this service has been shut down. We hope to provide an > export function soon." > > I know it /probably/ won't be shut down soon, but without a hard > guarantee we have to assume the start of Jan 2011. Maybe import/export > is nearly ready, but it's hard to tell from the current repository how > close it is to working. The task list shows no progress on the wave > store (and still talks about MongoDB): > > > https://sites.google.com/a/waveprotocol.org/wave-protocol/code/wave-in-a-box-task-list > > Cheers, > > > On Nov 30, 2:01 pm, Alex North <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Thomas - don't worry. We're not going to flick a switch on January 1 > and > > take away your data. > > > > We're tweaking the data API right now to allow you to export delta > histories > > from Google Wave, and we'll write some code to import them into WIAB. > We'll > > give you a decent window of time to make the export. If you're planning > to > > run WIAB, there's no need to download a ton of zip files. > > > > On 30 November 2010 08:12, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 20, 2:08 am, Alex North <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Persistence is non-trivial because the server must make guarantees > about > > > the > > > > consistency of the data. A server typically needs to persist more > useful > > > > forms of the data than just the delta history (e.g. the current > snapshot) > > > > and ensuring those representations stay in sync is again not trivial. > > > > > > It's coming along though, mostly implemented. > > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > > Is there any way we can enable this in its current form to evaluate > > > it? > > > > > We have quite a lot of waves (hundreds) which we need to migrate > > > somehow before the main server is shut down. We've been running FedOne/ > > > WiaB locally since it was first made available and we had been > > > planning to migrate to that, but with only three (working) weeks left > > > it looks like we need a backup plan. > > > > > Right now, the best option looks like asking everyone to dump their > > > waves to zip archives 10 at a time (can we automate this?) and then > > > collect all the PDFs together (removing duplicates) and index them for > > > read-only access. But I'd rather dump them to a format WiaB can read > > > if that's possible. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Wave Protocol" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > <wave-protocol%[email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
