On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:38:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > > >>> This brings up a good point though, how to sync status with the > >>> screenshots site. I'll talk to Signum about it. > > This will be doable. Which format would the data be useful in? Anything which is easily parsable by python, such as each package on a line, followed by a 0 or one depending on a screenshot being available. > Signum was also slightly concerned about being DDoSed. As an attack, or as a side effect of being popular? I think the only part that may become useless is the site itself, not the rest of alioth. So I don't think we really need to worry about attacks (I'm assuming nobody is going to attack us, and if they do, we can't really protect anyway). If it's the popularity thing, then our site becoming unreachable is exactly the problem. I don't think there's a high risk of that. How many people are we expecting? How often do they refresh their page? If they just claim a package and then spend at least 5 minutes generating a good screenshot, I think we need a huge number of participants to create problems at alioth. Then again, all the above is based on wild assumptions, so it could all be wrong. In any case it would be helpful to get more details about what the problem would be. :-) Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl/e-mail.html
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