[Savannah-hackers] Re: Database request

[Sylvain Beucler]

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,

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:43:41AM -0400, Chengetai Masango wrote:
> My Apologies, 
> 
> We have the sourceforge dump and I was just changing the email for Tigris
> and Savannah, I forgot to change the name.
> 
> We want to an analysis of all the projects you host.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> -Chengetai
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am a PhD student at Syracuse University and a member of a group doing
> research in "effective work practices for Free and Open Source Software
> Development". We are also a recipient of a NSF grant to study the same, more
> information can be read at our website http://floss.syr.edu .
> 
> We were wondering if it would be possible for you to provide us with an XML
> dump of the Savannah  repository, to prevent us from spending a great deal
> of time spidering it. This data is going to be used to work out bug lifetime
> data and also to analyze the structure of opensource developmental groups.
> We adhere to the IRB guidelines http://osp.syr.edu/IRB_Handbook.html and
> will not release any information that may reveal the identity or email
> addresses of any of the participants.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> ~Chengetai
> 
> -- 
> Chengetai N.J. Masango
> Doctoral Student
> School of Information Studies
> 4-206 Center for Science and Technology
> Syracuse, New York 13244-4100
> Tel: 315 443 4508