[DISCUSS] Including Features that Need Regular Updating?

2019-03-22 Thread Charles Givre
Hello all, I have a question regarding new Drill features. I have two UDFs which I’ve been considering submitting but these UDFs will require regular updating. The features in question are UDFs to do IP Geolocation and a User Agent Parser. The IP geolocation is dependent on the MaxMind datab

Re: [DISCUSS] Including Features that Need Regular Updating?

2019-03-22 Thread Boaz Ben-Zvi
 Hi Charles,     If these updates are only small simple tasks, it would not be a big issue to add them to the Drill Release Process (see [1]). BTW, most of the release work is automated via a script (see section 4 in [1]); so if these updates could be automated as well, it would be a trivial

Re: [DISCUSS] Including Features that Need Regular Updating?

2019-03-22 Thread Charles Givre
Boaz, If that’s the case… I’ll have 2 PRs for Drill v 1.17 ;-) > On Mar 22, 2019, at 14:25, Boaz Ben-Zvi wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > If these updates are only small simple tasks, it would not be a big issue > to add them to the Drill Release Process (see [1]). > > BTW, most of the releas

Re: [DISCUSS] Including Features that Need Regular Updating?

2019-03-22 Thread Bob Rudis
Two rly 👍 UDFs, too! Charles: many of the FOSS (or even non-FOSS) security tools we both likely tend to use in either of those contexts put the onus of updating the core DBs on the end-user (and try to go out of their way in the docs re: need to do that). I think as long as the version included

Re: [DISCUSS] Including Features that Need Regular Updating?

2019-03-22 Thread Arina Yelchiyeva
I am not sure that library update should be included in the release process. On the contrary, I think it should be done via regular PR process. Of course, you always have to find a volunteer :) Kind regards, Arina > On Mar 22, 2019, at 8:39 PM, Bob Rudis wrote: > > Two rly 👍 UDFs, too! > > C