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Subject: Re: Raw data from dedicated kernel bug database
From: "Timothy D. Witham" <wookie@osdl.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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  Sorry for the slow response I'm on vacation and sharing
the computer with 4 teenagers who are all addicted
to IRC.  But I think that Martin can get this done.

  Martin if you need help from my folks please contact
them and get this done.

Tim

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 18:56, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Larry, can I presume that you'll reciprocate, and export whatever you
> > do to the data in BK in some argument-free format (probably the same
> > one we export to you)? 
> 
> Yup.  A BK database is actually a BK repostory with an SQL layer on 
> top of it.  So all of the stuff you can do with BK you can do with 
> BK/Database.  We can export changes as patches, as flat files, as
> associative arrays in perl, take your pick.
> 
> > I think the concerns I had about tools going wild are actually fairly
> > easy to resolve by making it a pull-pull interchange ... don't know
> > why I was thinking of push models.
> 
> Cool.  I've already tracked down an SQL hacker who is willing to contract
> with us to write the scripts to get the data out of your Bugzilla database.
> He said that I need to ask you to do this:
> 
> 	shut down the mysql database
> 	grab all the MySQL files and stuff them in a tarball
> 	turn on the mysql database again
> 
> Then he can set up a mysql instance here and start hacking on the scripts.
> How's that sound?
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