On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Fredo Erxleben <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17.06.2014 21:17, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > > Hey, > > Sorry for the passive-agressive tune, but having to write a ner Json > > (de)serialization every quarter year is not that productive. > > Considering we have not changed the internal format like this before, and > that we are changing it to the one already used by the web API, in part to > have less differences, this seems to be an unfair characterization to me. > > Okay, strike the "quarter". The point is, that there have been a bunch of > changes and they all have to be supported. > I am aware that there will be probably no perfect Json version. While > looking at the dumps it seems, that, when updated, items are written out as > the then actual Json version. Items not updated for a long time therefor > remain in an older Json. > > TLDR: > - having a versioning tag would help a lot > - not mixing Json versions in the dump would help a lot
We are working on that right now. > - documenting the existing versions would help a lot (code is no > documentation) > > Even if no-one wants to do it retroactively, it would be nice if we could > make a habit out of it in the future. > </whining><working> Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
