Re: DAM and NEW queues processing
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:21:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (24/06/2009):
> > /me wonders whatever happened to those nice mails listing new DDs that
> > used to be sent out periodically
>
> They still are (see debian-newmaint@, “NM Report for Week ending…”), but
> AFAICT there might be something wrong there, since Samuel wasn't
> mentioned end of may/beginning of june. Cc'ing FrontDesk, which appears
> in the From: of such mails.
There are two mails.
The first type is the one that gives you the NM Report; it is automated,
sent by a script that gathers its data from the NM database.
The second type, the one I believe Frans is referring to, is sent
manually. It takes a lot of work and effort to create it (looking up the
required information, copying and pasting the relevant sections from the
relevant mails, doing some markup so the mail looks somewhat nice, etc);
I tried it once, but decided that the benefit is not worth the amount of
work needed to produce it.
Of course, since all the information that is part of the mails should
already be available by the time this mail is sent out, there's nothing
stopping anyone so inclined from doing this themselves...
--
The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters
works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is
trying to fool the system.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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