+1 to just stopping the automated email. I don't find it valuable. It was never finely-tuned enough in terms of actionability vs spam volume.
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:24 AM Jack McCluskey via dev <dev@beam.apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just bumping this again now that the long weekend is behind us. If no one > advocates for fixing the job in the next few days I'll assume a lazy > consensus and remove it. > > I also want to point out a typo in the subject, it should be "Remove *or* > Fix." > > Thanks, > > Jack McCluskey > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 3:16 PM Jack McCluskey <jrmcclus...@google.com> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> The Beam Dependency Check Report email (like >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/tc9v1d66rx77wzvrjnkcf0jo3rxtmrhn) has >> not had a successful incarnation since July 21st, 2022. I've done a little >> bit of digging into the problem and have found that the issue lies in a >> query >> <https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/2b13a03acc46c0a53dca9857f530d08a20b50da1/.test-infra/jenkins/dependency_check/dependency_check_report_generator.py#L196> >> to a "Python Compatibility Checking Service" that is just an IP address >> also taking the package name, version, and then specifying that it wants >> Python 2 packages specifically. I made a few brief attempts to figure out >> what that IP address was supposed to lead to and didn't turn up anything; >> however, that doesn't seem to matter since the root of the problem is that >> the job cannot connect to anything at that address, so the build fails and >> the email is sent out without a body. >> >> I started a bit of work this afternoon trying to update the job to direct >> its Python-related queries to PyPi's JSON API ( >> https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/26897); however, I question the need >> for this automated email at all given that we added Dependabot to the >> repository around 6 weeks before the Jenkins job started failing. If >> there's a good reason to fix it I'll keep digging, otherwise I'm in favor >> of removing the job altogether. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jack McCluskey >> >> -- >> >> >> Jack McCluskey >> SWE - DataPLS PLAT/ Dataflow ML >> RDU >> jrmcclus...@google.com >> >> >>
