Bug#459910: [Popcon-developers] Bug#459910: please randomize the submission time (to prevent to DDoS popcon.debian.org)

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:40:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: package: popularity-contest severity: important x-debbugs-cc: debian-publicity As discussed on irc this is because all clients hammer popcon.debian.org on the same day at the same time (in their local timezone at least) once a

Bug#459910: [Popcon-developers] Bug#459910: please randomize the submission time (to prevent to DDoS popcon.debian.org)

2008-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:20, you wrote: As I read the patch, this will make the popcon cronjob run for up to one hour, thus delaying the other cron.weekly scripts... If I'm right, I consider this patch not good enough ;) I'm not sure it will delay the other jobs, but I figure

Bug#459910: [Popcon-developers] Bug#459910: please randomize the submission time (to prevent to DDoS popcon.debian.org)

2008-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Holger Levsen] As I read the patch, this will make the popcon cronjob run for up to one hour, thus delaying the other cron.weekly scripts... If I'm right, I consider this patch not good enough ;) I'm not sure it will delay the other jobs, but I figure that if they waited for a week,