[Popcon-developers] Removing popcon entries from the future...

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 05:10:16PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Alain Schroeder just sent me an email about three popcon submissions
> from the future.  He had discovered three submissions from 2013, 2016
> and 2020 in the collected popcon submissions, and suggested I removed
> them.  I had a look, and sure enough, I found three entries from the
> future using this oneliner:
> 
>   cd /org/popcon.debian.org
>   perl -MFile::Find -e 'find(sub { if ( -f $_ && (stat(_))[9] > time()) { print "$_\n"; } }, qw(popcon-mail/popcon-entries));'
> 
> Trusting that time travel is not yet possible, and thus not something
> we should take into account for popularity-contest, I moved these
> entries away from the popcon-entries/ directory and into a
> from-the-future directory.  I suspect we should remove them, but
> wanted to check with the rest of you before I did something impossible
> to undo.

Hello Petter,
I would like to examine the cause:
Maybe there are due to the filesystem corruption on gluck some year ago.
Maybe it was a problem with the submitter system time that the popcon
server did not catch. In that case we need to add a check.

Cheers,
Bill.