[Labs-l] Failure to support database dumps on labs

[Dan Andreescu]

Sorry to hear, John.  While I'm not ops, is there anything I can help with
to get your immediate need filled?  What would you do with the dump?  Is
labsdb a good alternative or do you already have scripts?  Do you use
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ ?  Are the dumps you need not there?  I know
that site's experiencing some rate limiting but that's simply a budget
issue.

I'm on the analytics team and one of my goals is to make datasets and raw
data publicly available, so I appreciate your perspective and I'm sorry in
advance if I can't help.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking at a ticket filed almost two years ago for labs to support
> the -latest format that the toolserver had, and guess what? Zero progress
> has been made.
>
> This is getting sad, when labs was created it was supposed to be a
> replacement and improvement on the toolserver, yet a basic feature of
> running tools on database dumps has yet to be implemented,
>
> So knowing that, I got a request to run a database scan today. I took a
> look at /public/dumps/public/enwiki to figure out the path to the most
> current dump. Guess what? we don't have it on labs. The most current dump
> for enwiki is from last year.... /public/dumps/public/enwiki/20141208/
>
> Something needs to happen, key, basic functionality of the toolserver is
> still missing, its not rocket science, yet ops has consistently failed to
> provide needed functionality in this area, filing tickets gets me nowhere,
> so the real question here is why is this still an issue and who do I need
> to call in order to get things resolved?
>
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