[Xmldatadumps-admin-l] FR, IO, DE, EN, SV Wiki Failures

Tomasz Finc tfinc at wikimedia.org
Mon May 11 23:13:31 UTC 2009


This was a nasty mine to step on. While updating the template file to 
correctly update the links in the status file a variable wasn't properly 
declared. One exception and the whole system spun out of control and died.

That's just silly. Missing to update a status file on one iteration 
should not kill the build out right. I've added a fail safe so that if 
this happens again, the other portions of the build that are working 
just fine will continue to.

Thus two lessons:

1) Depend on test environment more
2) Add catch blocks to the code so that small failures do not bring 
the 	   system down.

--tomasz



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