[Teammetrics-discuss] Phase I: Statistics for mailing lists on Alioth

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:08:40PM +0530, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> 
> The lists which have to be parsed, how do we handle that? Do we:
> 
> 1. Save the list names in the script itself (current approach),
> 2. Allow the user to pass the list names to scan as an argument(s) to the list,
> 3. Read the list names from a file.

I strongly prefer 3. to separate code from data.  Having the option to
enable the user giving an additional argument might be reasonable for
testing purposes - but I'd regard having a configuration file mentioning
the lists to parse as the default way to run the script.
 
> I think we also need to include a check mechanism where a list is not
> parsed again so there is no redundancy.

Yes.  Perhaps storing the md5sum of a scanned mbox somewhere - probably
in a database table because we have the data in the database anyway
might server this purpose.

> This should be ready by tomorrow (downloading + parsing + getting the
> relevant information).

Hope that my subscription to the list will be done until then ...

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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