Hi, Thanks for the quick answer!
Stefano Mosconi wrote: > On 15/06/2011 11:46, ext Dave Neary wrote: > And the architecture has been laid out to allow this in principle. > Giving granular access to people to specific services. It's not one > service per machine of course but linux basic user access rights have > been used. Excellent news. >> Another way to empower people would be to publish regularly dumps of the >> information stored in various applications to allow duplication and >> enable people to do their own analytics - I know that this is tricky to >> do with Bugzilla (although Mozilla have sanitisation scripts they use to >> publish database dumps), but for other services, is publishing >> daily/weekly dumps of data something that could be envisageable? > > I don't personally see a lot of benefit in this and I am not so inclined > to do that. Just a few examples to try to convince you of the general interest: Mozilla ran the Open Data Visualisation contest recently: http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/11/17/mozilla-open-data-visualization-contest-data-is-now-available/ The results are fabulous! http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2011/01/11/mozilla-open-data-competition-announcing-the-winners/ As I said, Mozilla also makes sanitised dumps of their bug data available to anyone who requests them, for academic or analytical work. Wikipedia offers dumps of all of its data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download - which allows, among other things, projects like the XO to ship with a static offline wikipedia instance on the devices. It also allows people to get a lot of metrics out of the data: http://stats.wikimedia.org/ Specifically, I'd really like to enable people to submit additional queries & reports for MediaWiki for the community metrics dashboard. Currently that's difficult because of the lack of availability of the data. Thanks, Dave. -- Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
