Ubuntu QA Tracker API

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 03/01/2016 11:25 PM, Simon Quigley wrote:
> On 03/01/2016 10:15 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for taking this over, I wrote the first version of the site
>> almost ten years ago now and am quite amazed it's still being used
>> despite people complaining about it for about as long as it existed (but
>> nobody coming with anything better either) :)
>>
> I actually sort of like it and I think it has potential. Nobody replace it, please! ;D
>
> But I think the same about the LoCo Portal. ;)
>> About the API, one request I would have is to make sure to update any
>> script used in production by the Ubuntu project ahead of making any
>> backward-incompatible API change.
>>
> I doubt this will happen but I see where you are coming from. :)
>> Those scripts are in lp:ubuntu-archive or in the cdimage branches and
>> are responsible for auto-posting images to the tracker, triggering
>> builds upon request and doing the image publishing for milestones.
>>
>> We don't exercise all of those daily so it can be weeks/months before we
>> notice a breakage and having to fix things in a rush as we are trying to
>> push a milestone out the door isn't much fun.
>>
> I agree, I'll watch out for this and maybe work with the maintainer(s) of the script(s) to make sure this doesn't happen. If you do maintain a script that uses the API, please contact me. :)
>> Keep up the great work!
>>
> I hope that this turns out to be really useful for the future.
>
> If you have any further suggestions, please let me know. :)
It seems like there is an embedded version of the qatracker.py file in 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-archive-tools/trunk/files, 
which I believe also contains the scripts Stéphane is talking about. I'm 
not sure how this can be rectified long-term, but at least in the 
short-term, it needs to stay in sync with what's in the repo.

Nicholas