:: 19-Jan-1999 04:58 (Tuesday) ::
Well, call me paranoid but I decided to do a database dump of the stats
database before I dug into migrating everything over to DES. That’s why
there’s been such a delay in getting DES stats posted.
In short, though, the “stats run” has started and I’m watching with some
concern as it chunks through day 0 of the DES-III stats. I’m fully
expecting some weirdness overall, but I don’t anticipate any major
problems. A lot of the calculations in stats are lazy and assume that
there’s at least two days of activity, which may cause some calculations
to break. Plus, since the emails and teams databases carry over from
before, I’ll have to manually clear out the rankings offsets from their
RC5-64 values.
Still, it’s looking promising and things are proceeding relatively
uneventfully. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for helping this be
the smoothest and most impressive project rollout to date.
Things are going great behind the scenes, and we’ve actually had enough
free time to have a platform war or two on IRC. :)