I've just upgraded the Reports website with 2 specific changes. The first is an upgrade to the Labyrinth core code, which features a number of performance improvements and database efficiency improvements. Secondly the site now defaults to using the GUID .
In the first instance the Labyrinth upgrade aims to put a number of improvements in place to speed up the page loading times. This is mostly though making better use of the database and loading plugins that are absolutely necessary. Having tested this upgrade on a couple of my other sites, I'm not expecting any issues from this, but please let me know if you do spot some oddities. In the second instance, we will shortly moving to the Metabase as a the primary feed for reports. David and I are working through a couple of issues that the beta testing has highlighted, but the switch should happen fairly soon now. However, in order to ensure that the Metabase is fully supported, all the links will start to reference the GUID rather than the cpanstats id or the nntpid. What this means is that all the YAML, RSS and JSON files all now use the GUID as a primary key. The 'id' field that currently exists will remain and contains the cpanstats id. If you have tools that use the 'id' you should not need to make any changes, but you may wish to think about using the GUID for display or link purposes in the future. The YAML, RSS and JSON files that currently exist are being updated as reports come in and the respective pages are rebuilt. If you see anything that doesn't display correctly or a link that doesn't find a report, please let me know so I can investigate. Over the next week I'll be looking at changing the Daily Summary, and associated reports that are mailed out, to reference the GUID. After that everything should be in place to roll out the Metabase feed once the Beta testing is complete. If you suspect that this may cause problems or there is an area of the eco-system that has been overlooked, please let us know so we can ensure that the switch to the Metabase is as painless as possible. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
