hear hear Gerard On 29 May 2015 at 01:52, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The XML database dumps are missing all through May, apparently > because of a memory leak that is being worked on, as described > here, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98585 > > However, that information doesn't reach the person who wants to > download a fresh dump and looks here, > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html > > I think it should be possible to make a regular schedule for > when these dumps should be produced, e.g. once each month or > once every second month, and treat any delay as a bug. The > process to produce them has been halted by errors many times > in the past, and even when it runs as intended the interval > is unpredictable. Now when there is a bug, all dumps are > halted, i.e. much delayed. For a user of the dumps, this is > extremely frustrating. With proper release management, it > should be possible to run the old version of the process > until the new version has been tested, first on some smaller > wikis, and gradually on the larger ones. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
