[Python-Dev] Meta-reflections (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:28:19 -0500

What I don't think we ever figured out how to do was capture the info in the trackers (bugs, patches, feature requests). That would be a major loss, as well as a chance to forget about 500 people who can't figure out how to use threads on HP-UX, so let's call it a wash .

From a recent SF mailing to project administrators:

DATA EXPORT

We have added a new tool for project administrators to backup their Project data. It is now possible to export data from the Trackers (bug tracker, support tracker, etc), mailing lists, and forum data in to a single XML text file. This can be done at any time.

This is actually not a new feature. The ability to export data was available through March of 2001 until we did a major upgrade of the site, which broke the export scripts. We have now re-worked the code, and it's available again. Enjoy. http://sourceforge.net/export

SOMEBODY with admin perms should set up a cron job to such down the nightly XML. It's big! (Are we still sucking down the nightly cvs tarballs? We should!)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)