I reported last week that we had lost the disk running the Zope bug collector - and only then discovered that our ISP was not doing backups of it. Well, the story is turning out to have some legs. Unfortunately, the precautionary copy of the host that matt burleigh, our internal systems guy, did (in great foresight!), was incomplete - and apparently missed the collector site. (Great initiative, flawed follow-through!-) Fortunately, about a month and a half ago i did a .csv dump of the collector db, in order to examine the schema for a possible project to transfer the db to a tracker. I never had time to work on the transformation, but still have the db - yay! This means we have all the records up to about 2.5 months ago. What we're planning to do at this point is develop a _minimal_ replacement for the tracker, duplicating its essential features in a way that could serve as a basis for a CMF-based tracker - a sort of minimal evolutionary prototype. We'll then be able to populate it with the items we have. (We'd rather go with a rudimentary application we can build on in the CMF than with a tracker, from which we'd later have to migrate to a preferred CMF implementation...) What, you may ask, about the issues from july 26 to last week, when the collector went away? Well, there are a couple of avenues for recovering those items - we probably have internal mailling list archives with them, and also could scrape them from google searches where they're cached, if needs be. The issue is converting them to a form we could use to populate the new collector. What we're hoping is to engage volunteers from the community to stake out some portion of the remaining items and enter them in - perhaps to some CSV-producing application, or perhaps directly to the new collector. This is a heads-up for such a request - we need to scope out exactly what we're going to do before enlisting the support (and establish how many items we're talking about, anyway). I'm not sure what we'll do - it may be easiest to collect the items from a maillist archive and use a simple transformer to convert them into csv format - i don't recall how completely the email notices covered the collector items. That's the story for now - i expect to have more details (and a start on a new collector) by the end of the week. Ken Manheimer klm@zope.com On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Ken Manheimer wrote:

The Zope bug collector, normally at http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector, isn't at the moment...

The machine didn't come up after some maintenance - as can happen with long running machines - and unfortunately the service provider for that machine didn't have a recent backup(!) Fortunately, we have a fairly recent backup of our own(!), which we hope to get online sometime soon. We'll be reporting back when it's back on line. Sorry about the disruption!

Ken Manheimer klm@zope.com