[Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

[Daniel (ajax) Diniz]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Now, getting into pie-in-the-sky territory, if someone (not logged in)
>>  was to download all issues for scrapping and feeding to a local
>> database, what time of day would be less disastrous for the server? :)
>
> I think HTML scraping is a really bad idea. What is it that you
> specifically want to do with these data?

For starters, free form searches, aggregation and filtering of
results. The web interface is pretty good for handling individual
issues, but not so good for adding someone as nosy to lots of issues.

With some more time and effort, I'd be able to:
Organize a local workflow with tweaked UI