Most of that hasn't been touched in years, and it seems to be mainly a Python wrapper around the dump scripts in /phase3/maintenance/ which also don't seem to have had significant changes recently. Has anything been done recently (in a very broad sense of the word)? Or at least, has anything been written down about what the plans are?
Nicolas Dumazet wrote: > yep, http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/backup/ +) > > 2009/2/23 Alex <[email protected]>: >> Ariel T. Glenn wrote: >>> The reason these dumps are not rewritten more efficiently is that this >>> job was handed to me (at my request) and I have not been able to get to >>> it, even though it is the first thing on my list for development work. >>> So, if there are going to be rants, they can be directed at me, not at >>> the whole team. >>> >>> The work was started already by a volunteer. As I am the blocking >>> factor, someone else should probably take it on and get it done, though >>> it will make me sad. Brion discussed this with me about a week and a >>> half ago and I still wanted to keep it then but it doesn't make sense. >>> The in-office needs that I am also responsible for take virtually all of >>> my time. Perhaps they shouldn't, but that is how it has worked out. >>> >>> So, I am very sorry for having needlessly held things up. (I also have >>> aa crawler that requests pages changed since the latest xml dump, so >>> that projects I am on can keep a current xml file; we've been running >>> that way for at least a year.) >>> >> Is the source for the new dump system on SVN somewhere? >> >> -- >> Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) >> -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
