[three]Bean

Last night, we found a cronjob in Fedora Infrastructure's puppet repo that had incorrect syntax. It had been broken since 2009:

"Let's fix it!"
"Yeah!"
"Fixing is always good."

The cronjob's job was to run tmpwatch on the Fedora Planet cache. When it ran for the first time since 2009, it nuked a lot of files.

• This caused the planet scraper to re-scrape a great many blog posts, also for the first time since 2009.
• This then caused the planet scraper to broadcast fedmsg messages indicating that new blog posts had been found (even though they were old ones).
• The badge awarder picked up these messages and awarded a wheelbarrow's worth of new blogging badges to almost everyone.

Take a look at the datagrepper history according to zodbot:

threebean │ .quote BDG
   zodbot │  BDG, fedbadges +1097.35% over yesterday
   zodbot │       ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▆▆█▂▂▁▁▁  ⤆ over 24 hours
   zodbot │       ↑ 18:19 UTC 12/12           ↑ 18:19 UTC 12/13
threebean │ .quote PLN
   zodbot │  PLN, planet +69411.11% over yesterday
   zodbot │       ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▃█▁▁▁▁▁▁▁  ⤆ over 24 hours
   zodbot │       ↑ 18:18 UTC 12/12           ↑ 18:18 UTC 12/13
ianweller │ lol

That's a lot of planet messages. :) Congratulations on your new blogging badges!