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 <mrzmanwiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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?
>
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