Re: Refactoring the tracker

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:34:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I've decided that it's necessary to clean up the mishmash between SQL
> and Python in the tracker code base.  As I've mentioned before, there
> are three or four different ways for deciding if a vulnerability is
> fixed in a particular package version.  This makes changing the
> processing logic and creating new statistics rather difficult.
> 
> Another issue which has gained some significance lately is that the
> package and CVE lists have grown quite a bit, 

We could skip processing of all issues older than 2006?

> Constraints are: it has to run on soler eventually, and I don't think
> we can require Javascript on the client.

I'd prefer to stick with Python.

Cheers,
        Moritz