Hello, Governance.
I wanted to let you all know that we're in the early stages of respinning the quarterly Bugzilla database-dump-for-researchers process, which has been lying fallow after being discontinued as a peripheral part of the PII-chemspill cleanup last year.
The reason we're doing this is to make information that is already public-facing more easily accessible while taking some load off production Bugzilla. Researchers interested in our data typically obtain it by aggressively scraping Bugzilla, web or API so - in addition to being in-line with our principles - in this case making their lives easier means making ours easier as well.
While the DB dumps didn't contain not-already-public information themselves, the process by which they were created deserved some deeper consideration and care than we'd given it. That's what we're working through now, including moving to a whitelist-only rather than blacklist-only dump process and including a couple of in-script and in-process trigger-guards to flag data or schema changes for human attention.
At the moment this isn't anyone's priority, so we've agreed that while getting this spun back up sometime in Q2 would be nice, that's all it is. We'll be documenting the process throughout and looking for Clint Talbert's sign-off before resuming.
If you've got questions or concerns, I'm happy to discuss them here or you can email me directly.
Thanks for your time. - mhoye _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
