LEMDO 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-24
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 130
On Monday, started investigating the possibility of archiving products as WARC files,
and after some difficulty, got the warcit tool working; it’s older Python
and isn’t being maintained, so there were obsolete dependencies to work around, but
eventually I got it to produce a WARC file from the recent QME release. The file seemed
the right size. I then downloaded and ran the ReplayWeb.page AppImage to
test it, but it seemed to struggle with the size of the archive (8GB); the first time, it
seemed only to be aware of the JSON search files, and the second time it took several hours
trying to load, and I eventually timed it out. Also tried to use pywb, but that similarly
has Python lib issues. So the WARC has not yet been confirmed to be working.
On Wednesday, did some diagnostics triage and fixed a build break.
On Thursday and Friday, did a few more fixes from diagnostics.