2009/2/22 River Tarnell <river(a)loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk>uk>:
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hi,
currently the dump process is a bit broken. what is the Foundation's position
on this? why are developer resources allocated to put the server admin log on
twitter, but no one has touched dumps in months? is there not enough money to
fund this? how much more is needed?
(for an example of a problem, there is *no* successful enwiki dump at all on
download.wikimedia.org--the last 5 dumps, going back to 2008-03-12, all
failed.)
According to Brion on wikitech-l nearly a month ago:
"[...] it's a software architecture issue. We'll restart [the enwiki
dump] with the new
arch when it's ready to go."
So I guess that means it is being worked on, but it doesn't seem to be
a high enough priority. This problem has been around for years now, it
should have been fixed a long time ago.