"Lars Aronsson" lars@aronsson.se wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0902231202140.1043@localhost.localdomain...
However, quite independent of your development work, the current system for dumps seems to have stopped on February 12. That's the impression I get from looking at http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
Despite all its shortcomings (3-4 weeks between dumps, no history dumps for en.wikipedia), the current dump system is very useful. What's not useful is that it was out of service from July to October 2008 and now again appears to be broken since February 12.
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Still today, February 23, no explanation has been posted on that dump website or on these mailing lists. That's the real surprise.
I have to second this. I tried to report this outage several times last week - on IRC, on this mailing list, and on Bugzilla. All reports -- NOT COMPLAINTS, JUST REPORTS -- were met with absolute silence. I fully understand that time and resources are limited, and not everything can be fixed immediately, but at least some acknowledgement of the reports would be appreciated. It is extremely disheartening to members of the user community of what is supposed to be a collaborative project when attempts to contribute by reporting a service outage are ignored.
Russ