Re: Speed up trace mode (GSoC Project)

2019-03-28 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi Mihir, On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:07:20AM +0530, Mihir Luthra wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:22 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > What I miss a bit is some clear definition of deliverables, what > > pieces of code would be suitable enough for merging them into base > > and when. > > > >

Request to help potential GSOC students

2019-03-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear MacPorts users & developers, You probably noticed a slightly increased traffic on this mailing list recently. GSOC is an amazing opportunity for the students to learn something new, and for the MacPorts community to greatly benefit from their work. Last year we had almost no applications,

Re: GSoC Proposal

2019-03-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 19:28, KARAN SHETH wrote: > Hey, > > [image: Sent from Mailspring] > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:48 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > We are looking forward. I hope that Cyril will also help with the process > (my encounter with UPM so far was for the full two hours while

Re: GSoC 2019 [Collect build statistics]

2019-03-28 Thread Arjun Salyan via macports-dev
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:05 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > What if there's a server outage? > Then the best way is to use HttpStatusPush to deliver instant updates, and so that any build is not missed due to server failure, we could run our fetching script once per day. The script can easily

Re: GSoC Proposal

2019-03-28 Thread KARAN SHETH via macports-dev
Hey, On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:48 PM Mojca Miklavec mailto:mo...@macports.org)> wrote: > > We are looking forward. I hope that Cyril will also help with the process (my > encounter with UPM so far was for the full two hours while hacking on it :). I've written a basic npm frontend and macports

Re: GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

2019-03-28 Thread Rajdeep Bharati
I will try to set up libvirt. I can keep the PR comment from admin as a backup option. Rajdeep On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 5:37 PM Pierre Tardy wrote: > You can take control of the VM by downloading a ransomware or botnet or > whatever. > > You usually counter that by making sure the PR VMs are

Re: Speed up trace mode (GSoC Project)

2019-03-28 Thread Mihir Luthra
Hi there, I had a question. Before the build, dependencies are checked. Enabling trace mode hides incompatible versions of the current software being installed or the versions installed by other package managers and more such. The injected darwintrace.dylib will replace file operations if needed

Re: GSoC Proposal

2019-03-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Karan, On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 07:52, KARAN SHETH wrote: > Resending the mail cause, previous mail was not sent to mailing list. > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 2:10 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Dear Karan, >> >> I'm just answering a small part of your question here, a bit more about >> upt

Re: GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

2019-03-28 Thread Pierre Tardy
You can take control of the VM by downloading a ransomware or botnet or whatever. You usually counter that by making sure the PR VMs are restricted in term of network access they can do, and also restricted in the number of time it is alive (basically just the time of the build) Another much

Re: GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

2019-03-28 Thread Rajdeep Bharati
All right. Could you please give an example of a malicious PR? Would it be one which is done (locally tested) from an old version of macOS? On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:55 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Dear Rajdeep, > > It's not just a question of how to fetch a PR. That shouldn't be too > difficult,

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-28 Thread Joshua Root
On 2019-3-28 17:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 05:12, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: >>> I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only >>> download a large data set (~5GB), >>> see

GSoC Proposal

2019-03-28 Thread KARAN SHETH via macports-dev
Resending the mail cause, previous mail was not sent to mailing list. On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 2:10 PM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Dear Karan, > > I'm just answering a small part of your question here, a bit more about > upt while CC-ing its author & potential mentor: > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at

Re: GSoC 2019 [Collect build statistics]

2019-03-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 17:13, Arjun Salyan wrote: >> >> - A more elaborate plan about how you plan to handle updates / keep >> the database up-to-date. Sure, we can trigger certain actions from the >> buildbot, but those various "actions" need to be implemented. Keeping >> the app up to date in a

Re: how to deal with large data files

2019-03-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 05:12, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2019-3-28 10:17 , Renee Otten wrote: > > I am looking for some advice on how to deal with a port that will only > > download a large data set (~5GB), > > see https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/3904. I assume we do > > not