Re: Popularity-contest http POST: call for testers
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:17:22PM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:48:21 +0100
> Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hello developers,
> >
> > We have plans to add support in popularity-contest to send the
> > report through http POST. Both the server part an the client part have
> > been developed. The last issue is to actually use it in the cron job
> > and see what issues
> >
> > For that purpose, I have made an experimental popularity-contest
> > package that use both smtp and http. Please find it here:
> >
> > <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/debs>
> >
> > This package report to the test popcon account so we can monitor it.
> >
> > We would really like people to review or test this package in real
> > situations, in particular when network connectivity is chaotic.
> > We would like to make sure the popcon cron job will not cause problem
> > to users with poor network.
>
> I have not yet bothered to setup smtp on my machine to go through my
> ISP's required gateway, so I could only send reports via the HTTP
> method. Would my beta testing still be helpful, or are reports needed
> via both methods for the test?
On the contrary, it would be very useful!
Cheers,
Bill.
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