https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40331

Chad H. <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Chad H. <[email protected]> ---
The more I've thought about this, the less I think it's a good idea. It's not
just having to sanitize a good amount of data (ssh keys, external id table,
draft patches/comments), but with each release, Gerrit is deleting more and
more tables. Given that, I'd rather not encourage tools relying on data that's
being deprecated from day 1.

Instead, I'd recommend writing tools that use stable APIs. The REST API[0] and
the `query` SSH command[1] both provide stable machine-readable data sources
that can provide nearly (if not all) data that the database can. And given that
the API is being actively expanded and added to, it's not difficult to add new
endpoints if there's other data we're after.

So this is a WONTFIX, but with an open invitation for people to use other ways
to consume Gerrit's data :)

[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/rest-api.html
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/cmd-query.html

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