Hi all,
I've enabled daily updates to the census data[1] (except patch stuff).
Currently that means that the sources.list checker and the Packages and
Sources checker are now more useful and that I get daily mails when some
derivatives have broken apt archives or fail in other ways.
Currently that list includes Parsix (their mod_security config throws
403 errors at me[2]) and MetamorphoseLinux (see my previous mail[3]).
I would like to add more people to the cron mail recipients, volunteers?
Some things that need to be done if anyone would like to help out:
* debtags.d.n configuration generator
* make the planet.d.o/deriv config generator less monolithic
* www.d.o/derivatives generator to replace /misc/children-distros
* think through and fix all of the current issues with the patch
generation stuff, then enable daily generation
* work with mehdi to implement a suitable UI for qa.d.o for
maintainers to view, tag and hide patches from derivatives
* lots of unimplemented ideas for checking Packages/Sources files
in the bin/check-package-list script
* add a way to mail diffs for specific config files (such as
planet or debtags) to the designated maintainers of those
services.
* move the checkers to a lintian-style setup and possibly use
parts of the lintian code to generate a lintian.d.o style
website.
* audit the scripts for security issues
* add statistics and graphs
* your idea here
If anyone wants to work on any of these, please poke me on IRC, I would
love to help get more people working on the census scripts.
1. http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/
2. http://forums.parsix.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1230
3. [🔎] 1327017427.5424.63.camel@chianamo">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 1327017427.5424.63.camel@chianamo
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pabs
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