Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:05:07AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
>> I have now a frst draft of a status-change mail system running. it
>> works from the archive mirror on merkel, [...]
> Thanks for running with this. Ideally, we would get this integrated on
> ftp-master, so that the mails could be triggered by britney rather than
> being done post-hoc; this would also let us associate package removals with
> comments from britney hints files, so that they could be incorporated into
> the mails. If you're interested in making this happen
I am. Also, I have gotten a couple of complaints that people want the
mails to be more easily procmailable. If they had katie instead of me
as sender, they would have a better chance of matching people's
existing recipies for routine Debian notices.
It seems that integrating it *properly* would involve learning Python,
(which won't happen this week or next), but less might work, too.
> I'll be happy to give you any info I can; though tbh, if I
> understood this part of the system very well, I probably would have
> written a patch myself already. ;)
I think that doing post-hoc analysis (perhaps on Sources files,
perhaps on cached HeidiResult files) is still a more robust
architecture than trying to hook into britney's actual
decision-making. Britney itself doesn't remember the hint comments
anyway, we'll need to do some heuristic parsing of the hints files
separately to extract removal reasons.
--
Henning Makholm "Manden med det store pindsvin er
kommet vel ombord i den grønne dobbeltdækker."
