"Lars Aronsson" <lars(a)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.
...
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