Bug Safari Project

[Ben Bonacci]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the suggestion! Now after each request the script will wait 
1-5 seconds before making the next request.

Regards,

Ben

On 22/7/23 22:30, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:18 AM Ben Bonacci <ben at benbonacci.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone!
>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>
>     For the past few days I've been working on Bug Safari, which is a
>     Python
>     script that gets statistics for Plasma bugs and sends a report to the
>     #plasma room on Matrix, which is one of the dot points for KDE's
>     Automation goal.
>
>     I've now got the script uploaded to Invent at
>     https://invent.kde.org/bbonacci/bug-safari for anyone to look
>     over, make
>     improvements or implement.
>
>
> Thanks for this, I have just had a quick look over the code and it 
> overall looks pretty reasonable, and also follows best practice of 
> setting it's own user agent.
>
> One small suggestion would be to add some small sleeps in to ensure 
> that the server endpoints don't get hammered by your requests.
> While the script by itself is fairly innocent, if similar scripts were 
> added for a series of other channels and they all ran at the same 
> time, this could result in a rush on the server that could make it 
> inaccessible to normal users (or at the very least impact responsiveness).
>
> Adding some sleeps (ideally for a random number of seconds as people 
> tend to pick the same cron times to run stuff on) will ensure this 
> doesn't become an issue.
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Ben
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
>
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>     Ben Bonacci
>     https://benbonacci.com
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>
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