Gaps in guide data

[DJC]

They both source data from the same place. So one would expect them to be pretty similar ... but thats why its a development slice, we are testing that.

The basic difference is the way the slice is constructed. The dev slice has been designed to be abstracted through a database, it gets built nightly from this database.

The medium term goal is to get the community involved in management of the data, ie be able to update and augment show information.. and fix holes.. There are some developers on the web interface side for various aspects now.

[Features of the development slice are listed here, details on the emulators here]

[ehintz]

They both source data from the same place. So one would expect them to be pretty similar ... but thats why its a development slice, we are testing that.

Only significant diffence (as far as I'm aware anyway) would be time, there would tend to be a delay in the original emulator getting the data as it's been grabbing it via a cron job 2x daily. I just bumped that up to hourly, so it should be a bit faster in getting new slices ready for distro.