Timeline for Announcing a change to the data-dump process
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| Jul 20 at 13:15 | comment | added | user1937198 | @Philippe if you are that confident it will be resolved in such a short time, surely it wouldn't be much of a commitment for the company to keep publishing the existing dumps until such time the new process is actually in place and fully implemented. After all that won't be a problem unless it takes you 6 months to implement half a solution and 6 to 8 years to actually get to fixing day 0 bugs. | |
| Jul 12 at 16:03 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @Philippe there's a lot of .. uh.. organisational ADD caused trauma floating around. Maybe we can split the difference and be pleasantly surprised instead of the other sort as these things happen. I'd also add a certain amount of complaining means, we just might hope things change for the better. Much like small dogs, and little children, its the quiet that's dangerous. | |
| Jul 12 at 15:58 | comment | added | Philippe StaffMod | @VLAZ - sure, it has happened in the past that things got dropped. But I'll note that we just dedicated a sprint to locating and cataloguing and validating all the bug reports so that we know what all those things are, and we committed to four sprints a year to work on them. I'm not saying you should forget years of history because of that, but C'mon.... maybe a little bit of judicious suspension of disbelief? | |
| Jul 12 at 15:54 | comment | added | Philippe StaffMod | @JourneymanGeek, If you request the backup for that purpose, I'll see that we get it to you. | |
| Jul 12 at 15:09 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @ShadowWizard I mean, I don't like this, but I also get the system well enough to know obvious flaws. | |
| Jul 12 at 15:08 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @VLAZ on the short term, I've got some ideas on having community accessible backups - the simplest way would be to have someone request a full copy, for the explicit goal of having a backup of the entire database. Longer term, we can figure out hosting and distribution, but on the short term, even without the internet archive, it can serve the purposes of a non SE controlled backup. | |
| Jul 12 at 15:05 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @JourneymanGeek it's a wall standing in a place that had no wall before. Simple as that, and enough to decide it's a change for the worse, not for the good. If you believe SE is doing it with good intentions, great. I don't. | |
| Jul 12 at 14:58 | comment | added | lyxal | @VLAZ SE has been pretty responsive in listening to feedback on this process so far (as JG said, the original proposed process was way worse than this). From what I've seen, it looks like it could already be in the works. | |
| Jul 12 at 14:54 | comment | added | VLAZ | @lyxal sure. And how many features we had that were broken and we got a "we're looking into that" with no followup? What guarantee do we have SE won't just "forget" about finishing this? | |
| Jul 12 at 14:51 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | I believe that's the case. You do need to click through every site. Mods got a preview of a few previous versions and frankly, while annoying, is more of a series of potholes and speedbumps than a brick wall. Its not ideal but its a compromise that was the least worst that could be found. | |
| Jul 12 at 14:50 | comment | added | lyxal | "We're scoping and building a process to allow for this, but it will not be in the initial release of the feature." - The ability to download from all sites at once is something that's already being looked into. | |
| Jul 12 at 14:44 | comment | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | @Spevacus "Please note that users will only be provided the data for the specific Stack Exchange site and its Meta site for the corresponding Stack Exchange site profile. If you wish to access the data for additional Stack Exchange sites, you will need to go through the same process for each site." | |
| Jul 12 at 14:38 | history | answered | Shadow Wizard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |