On 2013-06-06 21:42, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
Well, I don't think adding more kruft to dak is a great idea (I mean, ifit has to happen, it has to happen), but this really shows that we need a unified way of passing machine-readable messages between services. Let's see how the GSoC project turns out; I'm willing to bet even a proof of concept would be useful to services that interdepend so closely.I mean, not to play the "UNIX" card, but one thing well, you know? Let'sjust aid in the code talking to each other better.
Oh yeah, if you give us secure and reliable(!) messaging over unreliable and untrusted networks, in way that DSA accepts, I would be very happy. ;-)
buildd could use it instead of throwing away calls when the main host is temporarily unreachable.
Kind regards Philipp Kern