[Sugar-devel] Asking for copies of "real-life" data store (Journal) contents

[Sascha Silbe]

In order to determine some "hard numbers" during data store development 
(especially for version support), I'm going to ask on sugar-iaep for 
copies of data stores ("Journals") that have been in use for "real" work 
(i.e. not just testing) for a significant amount of time.
Because that is potentially controversial (privacy!), I'm announcing my 
intent here (sugar-devel) first.
Submitted data store content will obviously be handled confidentially. 
(Only) if the user explicitly granted permission to do so during upload, 
it can be made available to other Sugar developers as well.

Tomeu suggested to write an activity instead that summarizes the data 
and to only submit the summary. For my first task at hand (determining 
the overhead of the prefix support [1]) this would suffice, but for 
later work (especially testing delta compression) I would need to ask 
(and wait) each and every time to run a new activity that performs the 
current measurement. That's why I decided to ask for the actual data 
first and only do a "benchmark" activity later if I don't get enough 
copies.

The upload form [2] is open for review (source[3] available).


[1] http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1090
[2] https://people.sugarlabs.org/~silbe/py/journal.py
[3] https://people.sugarlabs.org/~silbe/journal.py

CU Sascha

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