[Savannah-hackers] Re: Database request

[Chengetai Masango]

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 


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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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