Hi Doug,
is the beta API URL still active?
Regards
Slaven
Doug Bell <d...@preaction.me> writes:
> I have completed a new Metabase API that will remove our need for
> Amazon SimpleDB (and all the associated costs and problems). This API
> is available on the main CPAN Testers server under a new domain:
> http://metabase-beta.cpantesters.org
> <http://metabase-beta.cpantesters.org/>. It should work exactly as the
> existing Metabase API (currently available at
> http://metabase.cpantesters.org <http://metabase.cpantesters.org/>),
> but instead save test reports to the CPAN Testers MySQL database
> (which has replication and failover and has been graciously donated by
> my employer, ServerCentral).
>
> This new API also converts the test report to a new, expanded format.
> The new format allows submitting richer data in test reports to help
> in diagnosing problems. Garu is presently working on the clients that
> will create these new, richer test reports, and we will have more
> information when the clients are available.
>
> Before the new Metabase API can be released, I need some people to
> test it with real data. During the Perl Toolchain Summit, BinGOS
> temporarily pointed a few of his testers at it, and it worked
> perfectly, but that's one tester with one reporter version (and we
> have dozens of testers and lots of reporter versions). If you're
> running a tester, could you update your configuration to point to
> http://metabase-beta.cpantesters.org/api/v1 and send in a few reports
> to make sure they're accepted?
>
> There's a couple more minor steps that need to be completed before
> this can go live: I need to write a migration script to migrate all
> the data in the current database, and Joel Berger is writing the new
> script that processes test reports and derives all the other CPAN
> Testers data from them (the data that powers the website and other
> various APIs).
>
> Once all these steps are completed, if I do not get any bug reports or
> e-mails about the new Metabase API, I will switch over the DNS to put
> it in production. I'll write a blog post and update this mailing list
> when that happens so everyone is notified and can be vigilant for
> issues.
>
> Doug Bell
> d...@preaction.me
>
>
>
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