Bug Safari Project

[Nate Graham]

Very cool stuff. Can we see it in action anywhere?

Nate


On 7/23/23 01:38, Ben Bonacci wrote:
> 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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