[Developers] any programmatic way to query for sandbox reloading status?

[Raymond Yee]

Hi Brendan,

Some sort of email of when a refresh is imminent and when it's complete 
would be very useful, especially if the subject header would be 
structured to make it easy for a program to recognize.   (To be honest, 
I'm nowhere near automating my own process, so I would not immediately 
use such structured headings.)  I'm concerned, however,  about such 
emails going out on the dev list though -- would such weekly messages be 
crowding the list with too many status messages?  

(To me, this brings up the question of whether it'd be useful to have 
some sort of machine readable status indicator of freebase and 
sandbox-freebase in general.  So far, I'm under the impression that 
there's been very little downtime.  But what if freebase is down for 
maintenance?  I suppose if the MQL engine is up, we'd get status codes:  
http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch04.html#mqlreaderrors

-Raymond

brendan wrote:
> There is no api call to determine this. The data refresh on sandbox is  
> initiated by a staff member on Monday afternoon (almost always, and  
> never earlier).  At minimum, we should send an email to this list  
> announcing that a refresh is imminent and then when it's complete.  
> Would that be adaquate?
>
> Brendan
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:
>
>   
>> Now that freebase-python 1.0 makes it easier to easier to save and  
>> copy
>> types and objects around
>> (http://blog.freebase.com/2009/07/10/freebase-python-1-0/ ), I'm
>> thinking of automating the process of saving my sandbox work and
>> reloading it every week.  Is there an API call (or series of API  
>> calls)
>> I can make to determine 1) whether the sandbox is in the process of
>> being reloaded and 2) when that reloading is done?  Also some
>> information that indicates an estimate of when the next reload will
>> start and when it will end would be helpful for automating saving my
>> work between sandbox refreshes.
>>
>> -Raymond
>> _______________________________________________
>> Developers mailing list
>> Developers at freebase.com
>> http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers
>>     
>
> _______________________________________________
> Developers mailing list
> Developers at freebase.com
> http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers
>   


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/developers/attachments/20090717/628b79e1/attachment.htm