Re: Popularity-contest http POST: call for testers
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 04:19:53 -0600
Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> wrote:
> 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!
Thanks! It's installed now... with the sendmail section commented out in
the cron.weekly file (just to keep down the number of e-mails that cron
sends me).
HTH & HAND,
Jacob
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