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Ensures that the PyPI bus factor for a package is above a certain threshold.

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“With great power comes great responsibility” - Uncle Ben

Bus Factor

At the 2009 Plone Conference the quote “we usually think of buses as things that kill programmers” was overheard. A few days later, at the sprint, it was noticed that a few core packages for Plone 4.0 could only be released by one person. This package is designed to combat this by ensuring that a given package has more than a certain number of authorised admins on PyPI.

Syntax

This creates a console script called parker as follows:

parker [--factor=2]
       [--versions-cfg <configfile>]
       [--repository=http://pypi.python.org/pypi] [packagename(s)]
–factor:

(also -f) This determines the minimum number of people that have access before an error is raised. The default is 2.

–versions-cfg:

(also -c) If this option is provided a zc.buildout versions file will be parsed for the package names

–repository:

(also -r) A repository URL that follows the baroque lookup logic assumptions

packagename(s):

Required if –versions-cfg isn’t specified. Contains one or more packages to check, space separated.

Baroque Lookup Logic

Unfortunately, the API doesn’t allow us to find what users have access to a package, so we need to screen scrape. We expect HTML of the following format:

<li>
 <strong>Package Index Owner:</strong>
 <span>deo, smcmahon, MatthewWilkes</span>
</li>

<li>
 <strong>Package Index Maintainer:</strong>
 <span>JoeBob</span>
</li>

That is, a list element that contains Package Index <rolename>: and a comma separated list, once the tags have been removed.

First, the li tags are extracted

(?<=li\>)[\S\s]*?(?=\<\/li\>)

Then, the role name is extracted:

"Package Index ([a-zA-Z]*)"

and the names are found with:

set(a[0] for a in re.compile("([a-zA-Z]+,?)+?").findall(li)
         if a[0] not in ['Package','Index',rolename,'span','strong'])

Yes, it is ugly. I know. I wish there was an API for this, or that the markup was easily scrape-able. For now, this will do.

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