[Daca-general] Status of DACA

[Raphael Geissert]

Hi Carlos,

[Explicit CC as I guess you are not subscribed]

On Monday 11 March 2013 15:35:27 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
[...]
> Shouldn't this service be running automatically each time a new version
> of a package enters into sid? Is there a problem with the infrastructure
> or something like that?

Yes and yes :)
What's currently visible at qa.d.o/daca/ is generated by a very simple and 
non-scalable infrastructure. The scripts that generate the reports are 
slightly more scalable but not much more.
So the result has been that I've not re-started the scripts for a couple of 
years now and I've only re-used part of the DACA infrastructure to find and 
report bashisms [1].

The results of the new checkbashisms runs still exist and could be fed to 
the part of DACA that generates the web reports, but it could very well end 
up causing an inode shortage on the machine due to its non-scalable design 
:)

If you are interested in the project, feel free to subscribe to the mailing 
list(s) and contribute in whatever way you want. For future development the 
existing code should most likely be considered as non-existent. I've also 
just sent another email with more details and some brain food:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/daca-general/2013-March/000031.html

Feel free to join the discussion.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-
release at lists.debian.org&tag=goal-dash

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net