mysociety / mysociety/misc-scripts
Move hardcoded exceptions into configuration
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Perl
- Stars
- 11
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
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Description
As per the comment on these lines we should move any overrides and extra permissions into config rather than having them hardcoded.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading bin/generate-pgpass, especially lines 28-52 linked in the issue, and inspect how its current overrides and extra permissions are represented. Done means those exceptions are supplied through configuration rather than remaining hardcoded in the script.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- perl
- Domain
- devops
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100