[In case you have no idea what's going on, I wrote a utility that
automatically checks every handler, and sends email to the handler author if
the handler is broken. I know I don't keep up with every handler I've written.
:) ]
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Vadim Strizhevsky wrote:
> It doesn't look to me though that this is doen for "someone", and you
> wouldn't get this from people using the handler and it being
> broken. That would be just silly. This looks to me like Newsclipper
> site itself doing all the testing on all handlers once a day. So I'm
> pretty sure it always gets the latest handler version.
Right. I'm using the example web pages as the source of the News Clipper
messages.
> I'm not sure how this will turnout over time, perhaps we need to give
> it a week or two to settle down, But David have you done/thought about
> how to avoid some of the unecessary ones? Perhaps send mail only if
> the handler has been broken _twice_ in a row?
I'll implement three in a row -- if the handler is broken for three days in a
row, a message is sent. I thought about that, but wanted to get feedback
first. (This should make option #1 in the message unnecessary.)
> Or if handler is still broken dont send the same message every day?
If I implement the above, it would get sent every three days. I guess it would
be better not to nag people, but the problem is that it's easy for people to
ignore the message and never do anything about it.
> Btw, David a little bit of heads-up warning about implementing this
> feature on the list would've been nice too.
I figured the emails would be the heads up. :)
> [And how come 1.17 was announced on Freshmeat and not here?]
Hm... I announced it on newsclipperosannlist, which I thought had
newsclipperlist on it -- I've just fixed that. (Subscribe to
newsclipperosannlist if you just want announcements. Subscribe to
newsclipperlist if you want user messages and announcements. Subscribe to
newsclipperdevlist if you want developer messages.)
David
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