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Hi everyone, |
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This is the fourth progress report of the `Package statistics` |
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project[0]. I had been travelling the past week, so coding was a |
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little slow. |
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Summary |
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The goal of this project is to implement a client-server architecture |
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for reporting and querying package statistics of Gentoo based machines. |
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The client program will be used to collect package statistics from |
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Gentoo installations and submit them to a central server. The server |
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will calculate useful statistics based on the global dataset, that |
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developers as well as end users have access to, via an intuitive web |
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interface. |
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Past week progress |
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* Wrote ebuild for the client |
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* Auth info for the host is read from a config file now |
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* Implemented a config file feature for the user to mask reported fields |
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* Worked on pages for per-package and per-arch stats |
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Issues |
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* Payload compression : The client data sent could be compressed to |
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improve post time. This could be done by gzip compression of the |
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payload (authentication info should be separated from the payload |
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then), or by using a transparent gzip reverse proxy with apache. |
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* HTTPS : It was suggested to send the data over HTTPS for better |
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security. This too, could be implemented using reverse proxies. |
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Blockers |
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* Still blocked on bug 369679[1] to deploy the webapp |
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Goals for next week(s) |
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* Work on the above issues |
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* Continue work on the WebUI |
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* Write some tests for the client |
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[0]http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/vh4x0r/26001 |
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[1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369679 |
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Vikraman |
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