Ticket #128 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

Write cron job to e-mail about packages in -proposed

Reported by: broder Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: development Keywords: aptrepo
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

We should write something to e-mail us when a package has been in -proposed for more than a day or so so that we don't forget to migrate functional packages to production.

In a perfect world, I think such a script should track which package/version combinations it's already notified us about so we only get notified for a given pair once.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by broder

  • Priority changed from major to low

This is fixed for any release we still care about

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by broder

  • Priority changed from low to major

Whoops - wrong ticket

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by broder

  • Keywords aptrepo added

comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by broder

Mitch mentions as an option that, since different packages spend different amount of times in -proposed, the cron script should have some sense of when a package has been stewing long enough.

One option would be to put something roughly date-like in the keywords field on a ticket, and key off of that.

comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by quentin

Why don't we just have the script send a single e-mail once per day to debathena@ if there are any packages in -proposed, showing the number of days each package has been in -proposed and a snippet from the changelog?

comment:6 Changed 16 years ago by mitchb

The reason for my suggestion is that it's already the case that you guys have an
idea of how long you want various packages to be tested before putting them
into production (this is what Evan's been indicating in the text of tickets
lately). If you get a daily list of everything in -proposed, you'll get used to
ignoring this piece of automated mail like so many others that mostly notes
things you don't have to take action on (because you'll usually see packages
that should still be in -proposed).

If you can tell this script when you intend to deploy packages, its mail can
usually be relevant because it'll only mail you when a package's stay in -proposed
should be over. I suspect people will be less likely to instinctively ignore
the mail then.

comment:7 Changed 16 years ago by jdreed

  • Component set to development

comment:8 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

  • Milestone set to The Distant Future

comment:9 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

While this is not the same thing, I have updated package-list.pl to accept a path component of "ctime", which will include the ctimes of the .debs in the repo. (Packages which have a ctime of within 120 seconds of each other are defined as having been created at the same time).

This means that you can use http://debathena.mit.edu/package-list/proposed/ctime to see the creation time of packages in the specified repository. Packages older than 5 days have their ctime in bright red, packages younger than 5 days have it in reddish-brown.

comment:10 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

/mit/debathena/cron_scripts/debathena-nag.pl will be run at 8am each day.

comment:11 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed

Well, it successfully ran, but it send mail to me. I've changed it to send mail to debathena-root for now.

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