Tatoeba update (November 23rd, 2014)

Fixes

• Regarding the link feature for advanced contributors: it is now possible to drag-and-drop the icons (instead of the sentence text) into the link icon in the menu.
• Our assets files (images, CSS, javascript) now have a timestamp, so that the browser knows whether or not it needs to update them. This means you should no more have to worry about clearing your browser's cache.

Development website

Gillux recently set up a development (dev) website. The purpose of the dev website is to let members test new features and check the interface translations BEFORE they get released into the production (prod) website, that is the actual Tatoeba website.

Maintenance

We are planning to disable Tatoeba temporarily next weekend (November 29) for maintenance.
The maintenance is about changing the engine of our MySQL database from MyISAM to InnoDB. For this operation we need to stop access to the database, that's why we need to shut down Tatoeba. It should take around 3 hours.
We need to do this change in order to run the sentences deduplication script. More about this below.

Sentences deduplication

First of all, note that the deduplication script will not be running during the maintenance, but after. The script can run with Tatoeba being available. It is still unsure whether we will run the script next weekend or later. We are still in the phase of debugging the script.

There was a first test of the script of the dev website. It took 9.5 hours to complete. You can help us make sure that the script works well by checking the dev website. Duplicates that were removed can be identified as they were deleted by Horus (it's the current name of the deduplication bot).
If you notice any issue such as sentences that were deleted while they shouldn't have, or information that was not re-linked properly, report the problem to us on the Wall of the real website (not on the dev please) or on our Google group.