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
