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Re: http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/



Le Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:21:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:14:55PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> > http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/ seems unavailable, connections
> > remain waiting.
> 
> Charles, I think you should do
> 
>    echo "upstream-metadata   in  a  117.121.245.165" | gpg --clearsign | mail changes@db.debian.org 
> 
> If I remember correctly it was on the same host as blends.debian.net
> and this was moved by GPLhost.

Hi Olivier and Andreas,

I just updated the IP address, thanks for the hint.  I realised some time ago
that the service was unavailable, but I thought it was caused by the upgrade
to Jessie...

The fact that Olivier is the first to report the problem in public suggests
that not many people have a use of this service.  Earlier this year, I started
a discussion about terminating upstream-metadata.debian.net and there was not
much objections against it.

In 2014, the service was affected by a bug that I could not resolve, and I
could not get any help for it.

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2014/06/msg00022.html

Altogether I am blocked and it is clear that I will not be able to provide
a good quality of service alone.

As a pet project, I tried a couple of times to reimplement the whole system
in Haskell, but I still have to iron out my skills on simple issues such as
the handling of command-line options, etc.

Altogether, while I am satisfied that I could start this project and provide a
prototype, I also realise that the design is very naive, for instance I admit
that I do not know what would happen in case of concurrent access to the
database.

So in my opinion, it can not continue at a one-man project.

Have a nice day

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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