2011/2/9 Jamie Morken <[email protected]>: > > Hi Ariel, > > I don't really understand why the dumps need to be halted as I thought the > mediawiki code and database dump code were basically two separate entities > already*. I guess the 1.17 branch code changes the structure of the database > causing potential errors in the database dump? I also don't understand the > "precautionary" logic of halting the dumps, as a dump with errors is better > than no dump in the case where there are a limited supply of recent dumps due > to the RAID server failure as well. If its only a couple day halt as you > mentioned that's probably irrelevant, but it sounds like it may be a longer > period of limited testing from your last wikitech email, which makes me > wonder if it is even worth halting the dumps in the first place.. Also > wouldn't potential dump errors be detected better if they continue to be > produced and check them for errors, rather than halt them? > The dump code and MW code are intertwined, they're not separate. I think the xmldumps-backup branch you're linking to is just a branch Ariel is playing around in or working on dump-specific code or something.
We really don't want any maintenance scripts running when doing 1.17 stuff, and the dumps use maintenance scripts. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
