[Mageia-dev] Monitoring of new GNOME/upstream releases

Fri Jun 24 13:53:22 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Now, if you want to create a notification system for that, feel free.
+> The software can be found on ouri.zarb.og, the documentation is minimal,
+> this is perl. You can however get test result in txt format, html, or
+> anything, and thus a tool to send notification ( and more important, a
+> tool to configure notification ) can be constructed upon that.
+
+Thanks for the pointer. Already noticed a few things:
+1. It uses the LATEST-IS files and there was a bug with that and not
+everything has been fixed atm (is fixed for new stuff)
+2. It uses http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/sources instead of
+either http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources (primary mirror) or
+http://download.gnome.org/ (currently just redirects to primary mirror,
+long term goal is having it redirect to closest mirror).
+
+Didn't fully analyse yet, but noticed it uses a database, so think I'll
+need to make two things:
+ - script to process live update messages (ftp-release-list in case of
+   GNOME)
+ - script to notify people (either immediately or when youri runs from
+   cron) + setting in database which ensures the announce only goes out
+   once
+
+I'll try to work on this.
+
+How would the maintainer data be stored btw? Should it be a config file
+that a script generates, LDAP?
+Also: is a maintainer always the same for all branches? e.g. if someone
+maintainers metacity, that person is responsible for Cauldron, stable
+releases, backports, etc (some distributions differ on this)?
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+