Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Erm, I didn't want to do that, because it'll open up base/ for everyone > to crawl, including spambots. And all the mails are there without any > headers removed, including internal PTS addresses that should not be > exposed, to avoid spam causing

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:16:49PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > I suppose frankie was speaking about something like a SOAP interface or > > > alike, > > > in order to be able to query the PTS remotely, within a script. > > > > Personally

Re: Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > I suppose frankie was speaking about something like a SOAP interface or > > alike, > > in order to be able to query the PTS remotely, within a script. > > Personally I think SOAP is overrated, overhyped, or both. But as the PTS > uses XML to s

Data access for the PTS (Was: Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout)

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:29:29PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > > > be very useful f

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > > be very useful for remote scripting... > > What do you mean, 'webservice'? PTS *is* a w

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > That reminds me: is there a webservice thought for PTS? I think it could > be very useful for remote scripting... What do you mean, 'webservice'? PTS *is* a webservice (next to also being a email service, that actually is

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:02:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Marc Haber: > >> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > >> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:02:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation > >> in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why). > > Is

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:39:28AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote: > >Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > >syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system > >without root privileges. Additionally, parsing

Re: Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

2006-02-01 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote: Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system without root privileges. Additionally, parsing the Sources file is another challenge. And again additionally, I don'