Yep! It just seems a bit slow, though.
> On Jun 27, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Slaven Rezic <sla...@rezic.de> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> > > -- > Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de > > Berlin Perl Mongers - http://berlin.pm.org
