[Savannah-hackers] Re: Database request

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Sorry about the delay. We are currently lacking time, so I had to
postpone this task. I will try to make a dump available for you to
download within some days.

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Sylvain

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Chengetai Masango wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> I am following up on our request for an SQL dump of the public information
> in your repository.
> 
> Do we need to make further arrangement to get it (send you some storage
> media etc..) or can we download it in some fashion.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> -Chengetai 
> 
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Chengetai Masango <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:25:51 -0400
> To: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Database request
> 
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response. A SQL dump would actually be better. We
> don't think we  not need any information that is not publicly available.
> 
> Here is the blurb:
> 
> We are interested in understanding the practices of the developers in
> the various projects. For that, we need to know what they do on the
> site and with whom they interact. Specifically, we're interested in the
> contents of the various trackers (bug, feature, patch, etc.) and the
> discussion lists, as well as these top level project data. We don't
> need any data that's not publicly available on the site, but we do need
> to be able to identify which postings are from the same developer. On
> the site, these postings are identified by user id, and that would be
> fine. Or, if you prefer, the user ids can be replaced to make them
> anonymous, but it would have to be a consistent replacement so that all
> items from the same developer have the same replacement id.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> -Chengetai
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/4/04 6:42 AM, "Sylvain Beucler" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We do not have a direct way to give you an XML dump.
> > 
> > We currently have an incomplete script to generate a XML dump of some
> > information:
> > http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/savane/savane/backend/gnu-specific/sv_xml.pl?rev=1.
> > 8&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> > You may want to complete it, so we can run it against our database and send
> > you the resulting dump.
> > 
> > We can also give you a SQL dump of the database. However, we will only
> > include already publicly available information.
> > 
> > Last, maybe you will want to precise the meaning of "Savannah
> > repository". We usually reserve the term "repository" to the CVS
> > project files, but I think you are interested in other pieces of
> > information.
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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Sylvain