On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Do you guys know how I could get a dump of the
bugzilla database?
Depends on what you want to do with it. If at all possible, the best
thing to do is to use the API for any structured input/output you need
(there are several different ways of getting structured data, e.g.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?ctype=xml&id=38994
Getting a raw DB dump is an Ops request, and one that will likely be
slow because there's just enough private info in BZ to make it so we
can't just give it to anyone to do whatever with, and also just enough
that it's a pain to strip out the private stuff. That's why the API
is an appealing option to recommend (since it respects the access
level of the requestor).
Anyway, as Andrew said, probably offtopic for this list. Best thing
to do is to ask around on the #wikimedia-operations channel, and then
go to wikitech-l if you aren't getting an answer there.
Rob