[opam-devel] Please don't DoS the opam-repository

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

It's the free service, and so it's rate throttled by "reasonable use".  In general we should avoid spamming the repository with a ton of requests to avoid causing Travis a surge.

However, the model that you used is the right one, since it triggers an individual installation of each package rather than failing on the first error (as a big unified PR would).  I don't have an easy answer to how to rate limit pull requests -- hopefully this will just become easier as we run these sort of distfile checks on an ongoing basis and so do not let a big backlog build up.

Thanks for taking all the trouble to file the PRs!

Anil

> On 22 Feb 2016, at 18:05, Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> 
> Do we have a limited number of jobs on Travis ? jobs per jour, jobs per day, jobs per month ?
> --Fabrice
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:25 PM David Sheets <sheets at alum.mit.edu <mailto:sheets at alum.mit.edu>> wrote:
> Dear Fabrice,
> 
> Please slow your submission of pull requests to ocaml/opam-repository.
> 
> Your PRs solve long-standing and unreported issues (good!) but do so
> in a way that is anti-social to the other members of the community.
> 
> Specifically, you have now queued an enormous number of jobs on Travis
> CI which will slow package publication and testing for emergent
> issues.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> David Sheets
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