On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote:
I thought I would try an interactive text-mode client for Launchpad bugs, in the hope that it would be either faster, or easier to add new features to than the web ui. This would overlap a bit with bughugger, but bughugger seems not so feature complete, and text stuff is perhaps easier to prototype than a gui. It's now in <https://edge.launchpad.net/hydrazine>, and it does work enough to do some bug operations: pillar bzr
We use pillar internally, but the term seems a little opaque to expose end users too.
I think there is still some potential, but it's not quite as good as I hoped, mostly because API calls (from Australia) are very slow, commonly more than 2 seconds each. Doing an api call is not
If there was a way of keeping the SSL connection open, I think this would be much, much faster. I'm not sure if we will ever be able to move the API off https: - maybe the client can be taught enough to tell if what it is sending is private and needs to be sent over a secure chanel or if our auth is sufficiently resistant to man in the middle type attacks. -- Stuart Bishop <[email protected]> http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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