Cron the fedora-owner-change?

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 18:56 +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:48 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:04:54 +0200
> > Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Yesterday I announced an idea that I've had of using datagrepper to
> > > announce package ownership changes [1].
> > > The feedback seem positive, so I change the script [2] to send the
> > > email directly, so basically we can run it via a cron job easily.
> > > 
> > > Do we want to have this script as a cron job in the infrastructure?
> > > All it needs to run is argparse and requests.
> > > The following question is how often should the cron run, this is
> > > opened for discussion.
> > 
> > We could. 
> > 
> > I floated the idea a while back of having some kind of 'oddjobs' type
> > server to run things like this on, and/or some kind of app that lets
> > users run a datagrepper query from cron and mail the results. 
> > 
> > For now, I guess we could just put this on bapp02? But that would take
> > a freeze break. 
> > 
> > Or we could put it on datagrepper01? 
> 
> Either places are fine for me, whatever is the easiest to do and
> maintain in the future.
> We could also consider having it on datagrepper01 (which iirc is off
> freeze) and move it to bapp02 after freeze, that would give us a little
> more flexibility in case we face unexpected bugs in deploying the cron.

Now that the freeze is over, should we proceed?

The remaining questions were: where and how often? Suggestions?

Pierre