Linters hammering KDE infrastructure

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Packagers,

Hi Packagers,

>
> The following is a friendly request to please ensure that your
> packages do not contain any references which may be subject to
> automatic validation, and thus result in a heavy load being placed on
> KDE infrastructure.

*Sigh*

I've yet to see any response to this. Either to any of the mailing
lists which were CC'ed or directly to myself. I would rather not have
to be a fire breathing dragon in this department, but if necessary I
will begin that process.

>
> It would appear that Redhat / Fedora packages are not compliant in this regard:

And I'll be starting with Redhat / Fedora.

>
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:04 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:04 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:05 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:05 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:07 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:08 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:09 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:11 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:11 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:12 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:13 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:14 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:14 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:15 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:15 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:15 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:16 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:16 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:16 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:18 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:20 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
> 209.132.181.102 - - [20/Mar/2016:23:17:20 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 500
> 4099 "-" "rpmlint/1.8"
>
> In this case, the index page of quickgit.kde.org is being hit. Twice a
> second, sometimes more. And the index page is the most expensive of
> all of them.
>
> Please amend your packaging directives as soon as possible to remove
> these references.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin

Regards,
Ben