[seqfan] Re: Loss of recent.txt, or a computer-assisted way to search through the "approved" listings

[Olivier Gerard]

Dear Alexander,

You will just have to wait, be courteous and be happy to look at sequences
(and other things in life)
through other means than recent.txt for a little while.

Most users did not look at "recent.txt".  Editors and sequence producers
did.

Editors have several mechanism already to check the sequences to edit.

You must also remember that the time behind the "new" keyword used to be
quite dependent on
the amount of work Neil was able to put into editing of the OEIS.

This topic is over. Russ will explain the settings about the "new" keyword
as soon
as he can on this list.

Regards,

Olivier


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:48, Alexander P-sky <apovolot at gmail.com> wrote:

> >but they will expire in the next
> > two weeks and the keyword will go back to matching
> > fewer sequences.
> So what users suppose to do now - before  the two weeks will pass ?
> Could you fix this bug now instead of waiting for two weeks ?
> Could you describe exactly for how long the keyword "new" will be kept
> after two weeks will pass ?
> I still would prefer to have recent.txt be restored and maintained.
>
> ARP
>
> On 11/17/10, Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:
> >> For example, one could search recent.txt for a keyword like "Lucas", or
> >> for someone's name or whatever.
> >
> > My understanding is that recent.txt was the same
> > information as keyword:new.  If that's the case,
> > then it seems like you should be able to search for
> > [keyword:new Lucas], no?
> >
> > Unfortunately keyword:new is a bit overzealous
> > right now because there were a bunch of changes
> > during the transition - right now there are 29,000
> > "new" sequences - but they will expire in the next
> > two weeks and the keyword will go back to matching
> > fewer sequences.
> >
> > Russ
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:20:44 -0500
> Subject: [seqfan]  Loss of recent.txt, or a computer-assisted way to
> search through the "approved" listings
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>,
> "peter.luschny" <peter.luschny at googlemail.com>, Russ Cox
> <rsc at swtch.com>
>
> I thought this was about losing information, and it was really about the
> loww of recent.txt, or finding a way to search for recent edits without
> wading through all recent edits.
>
> Did we ever answer that? Because that interests me too.
>
> It would be fairly tedious to look through all the
> http://oeis.org/history/approved pages for recent edits that match a given
> set of search criteria, which is what recent.txt allowed.
>
> For example, one could search recent.txt for a keyword like "Lucas", or for
> someone's name or whatever.
>
>
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