[Popcon-developers] Bug#459910: Bug#459910: please randomize the submission time (to prevent to DDoS popcon.debian.org)

[holger@layer-acht.org (Holger Levsen)]

Hi,

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:20, you wrote:
> > As I read the patch, this will make the popcon cronjob run for up to one
> > hour, thus delaying the other cron.weekly scripts...
> >
> > If I'm right, I consider this patch not good enough ;)
> I'm not sure it will delay the other jobs, but I figure that if they
> waited for a week, they can handle waiting for an hour. 

That's not my point. These scripts used to run at a fairly predictable time, 
which this patch changes, which might break unrelated software. Thats my 
concern (for a stable update, for sid, it's less an issue.)

But obviously I'm no stable release manager :-) Martin, can you please comment 
on this. 


regards,
	Holger

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