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@gmail.com:
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?
-- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)