[Labs-l] Reimplementing account expiries

[Maximilian Doerr]

I cannot explain why xTools will break down when moving to Trusty.  Hedonil, when he wrote it, made it way too environment specific that it can't even be sneezed at without breaking something.  That's why it's getting rewritten to avoid that.  I have no idea what change in the environment breaks it but it does, and it's safe to assume that xTools is not the only tool.  Anyway if disk space/CPU/RAM are not an issue in regards to inactive tool maintainers then this proposal is moot.  I was just suggesting something to help keep unused resources free and available.

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> On Feb 3, 2017, at 17:02, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> 
> Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Because the labs environment is always changing.  Moving
>> xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools.
>> Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but
>> just saying.
> 
>> […]
> 
> But the deprecation of Precise does not cause a tool to
> "suddenly break down", but simply be switched off, with
> about seven months of warning.  The next time this will hap-
> pen is April 2019.  So IMHO it is unnecessary to create an
> atmosphere where tool developers must assume that their ap-
> plications need constant attention.  Breaking changes to the
> Tools environment are and should be rare as they come at the
> price of hundreds or thousands of man-hours.
> 
> Tim
> 
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