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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 18:38, you wrote:
> Here is a draft patch to implement a random sleep.  The patch is
> mostly cut-n-paste from sitesummary, which did the same for cron-apt,
> but is as it stand not tested in popularity-contest.

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 ;)


regards,
	Holger
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