Actually thats a lie, this mail is about changes that have already happened, *and* about some upcoming changes.
The exciting news is this: - oopses will be much more extensible - a bson serializable dict is used, rather than the rfc822 format - we may have low latency (several second) delays from oops creation to inclusion on the oops-tools site - oops-tools itself will be open sourced soon The downside, and the reason for this mail *before* enacting all these changes, is that the change to bson will make OOPSes less greppable on devpad. This is a commonly used workaround for lp:oops-tools not offering comprehensive search facilities. Note that bson doesn't mangle strings, so you can still grep, but you need to run the matches through python to extract the thing you looked for - the bson.loads() function can pull out a bare report, or you can use the oops_datedir_repo.serializer_bson.read() function. Note that backtraces reported in launchpad.dev's web UI will still be normal, same with those on the console, and oopses attached during tests will be unchanged (because our test glue uses the rfc822 serializer directly). Now, these separate changes are separate: we can get the lower latency oopses without switching to bson, and vice versa - so if there is a -big- issue for us in switching to bson, we can defer that part. Technically, the bson change is a change to the default serializer in oops_datedir_repo, so if you bump the rev of that component to 0.0.8 or above and *don't* want to switch to bson, be sure to update your config to pass in the rfc822 serializer. I haven't yet integrated this into Launchpad itself, nor updated any oops generating components to 0.0.8, so currently there is no change in behaviour ;). Integrating that into LP will require us to fix the inter-test isolation of reported oopses (which is a good thing to do) so it probably won't happen this week (due to the time needed to identify and track down failures). So - that gives us a few days to talk around this and decide if the downside is too much, or not :) Its my belief that we will still have *enough* greppability, and the benefits of easier extensions to the oops format will outweigh the downsides. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
