"Thomas Lotterer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Simon J Mudd<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2005-12-14 19:48:55:
> > I notice that on http://registry.openpkg.org/?page=association the
> > "active" instance is marked with a [constant] "date"
> > Is this date supposed to show the last access to the OpenPKG system or
> > is it showing when I registered?
> > 

> The intended behavior is to show the date of the (last
> re)registration. However, at the time of your posting that feature
> was not implemented and only the initial registration was shown. The
> feature was added 2006-02-23 [1] and deployed same day. Anyway,
> neither the last user login to the registry nor the last ftp/rsync
> login touch this field. The intention is to smoothly force
> repetitive registration as a prerequisite to identify and get rid of
> obsolete information. Also, we plan to add more features to the
> registry which in turn requires reregistration. In the end, force to
> reregister will be increased by denying access to instances that did
> not reregister for a long time. Recently "a long time" has been
> increased from 2 to 150 days but this is cosmetic only as currently
> the ftp server doesn't yet care about information age.

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,

Simon
______________________________________________________________________
The OpenPKG Project                                    www.openpkg.org
User Communication List                      openpkg-users@openpkg.org

Reply via email to