On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:54:16AM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Right. That's the one I had in mind as well. :)
:)
> So how *do* we make that "whitelist"? Commandline param? And what will
> it list? Packages? People? Package/people combination?
commandline param with a list of (src) packages to ignore.
> Before you answer, consider that all entries are manually maintained and
> I sometimes write my name "Antoine Beaupre", "Antoine Beaupré" or
> "anarcat" depending on what I remember I used last, and that last time
> we dealt we accents, the script crashed. :p
thanks, that's why I choose src packages :)
> > Conclusion: the script has potential but is still too buggy ;)
> Yep. Silly me, I only looked at claimed-date and not "last-update".
ah
> I pushed this fix and the output changes to implement the things we
> discussed. Hopefully it will help us move forward. :)
very cool, thank you.
> I bypassed the MR
> process as indicated in private: I am going under the assertion that the
> secteam is not using this script anyways and we shouldn't bother them
> with our administrativia any further.
yup.
> The only thing that remains unclear to me is the opt-out mechanisms. I
> believe everyone should be "opted in" by default and we can add
> exceptions. The only question is how. I can think of two ways:
>
> 1. manually: the operator (or cronjob) passes a list of "things" to the
> script that then get ignored
>
> 2. automatically: the script reads "things" from a file next to or
> close to the dla-needed file
I think for starting this experiement we should keep things as simple as
useful. above we discussed introducing a whitelist for packages always
handled by someone. As I see it, we can use the same whitelist for
people who (are volunteers or otherwise) want to opt out here. As above,
I'd refer to them via src-packages, at least in the beginning / until we
have a case where this doesnt work anymore.
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cheers,
Holger
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