mogul needs love

[Denys Duchier]

Kevin Glynn <glynn at info.ucl.ac.be> writes:

> - I believe the mogul librarian is broken, it doesn't seem to be
>   picking up package updates any more. As far as I can see the last
>   time it did this successfully was October last year ... 

I know - here is the problem:

when the MOGUL librarian runs, it first fetches a snapshot of the distributed
database to update its info.  Unfortunately, if some site is unavailable, this
phase fails and no update takes place.  There are a number of bad guys (me
included, unfortunately) who have not properly maintained their offerings.  I
have not had time to take care of it: like pruning the entries from the bad
guys.

I apologize for being remiss in my MOGUL administrative duties.  My only excuse
is that becoming involved in the bioinfo project in Lille has required of me
considerably more work than I had anticipated :-/

> - Can you put your mogul contributions back online, please? Lots of
>   fans have asked for this on the users/hackers lists. 

I will try.  One issue is that I was hoping to migrate my offerings to my new
place of employment, but security concerns have made sysadmins seriously anal
retentive, and I have not managed to arrange this.

> - How does/should mogul cope with contributors who don't want to
>   maintain their packages further (but don't want to withdraw them).
>   Can they have their mogul home redirected to somewhere permanent on
>   the mozart-oz site, for example.

I think this would be an excellent choice.

> - How can/should mogul contributors withdraw their packages (because
>   they don't think they should remain in the mogul archive)?

There is no special provision for withdrawing packages.  I guess we could just
manually purge them from the archive.

Cheers,

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Dr. Denys Duchier - IRI & LIFL - CNRS, Lille, France
AIM: duchierdenys