Ubuntu QA Tracker API

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 09:59:32PM -0600, Simon Quigley wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> My name is Simon Quigley and I mainly do Quality Assurance for the Lubuntu team. I have also written/revised a few manual testcases.
> 
> I don't know if many of you knew this, but the QA tracker has an API that's old and hasn't been worked on for a while. I believe it would be an *extremely* useful tool to have, because it has potential for a *lot* of different applications. I recently contacted Nicholas Skaggs about this, and he has allowed me to take over the project.
> 
> If you would like to help out, I have created a wiki page[1] that should help you get started.
> 
> If you have any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions of any kind, don't hesitate to stop by #ubuntu-quality on Freenode, or contact me using my contact details below. PMs and emails are welcome. :)
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/API
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon Quigley
> tsimonq2 on Freenode
> tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com

Hi,

Thanks for taking this over, I wrote the first version of the site
almost ten years ago now and am quite amazed it's still being used
despite people complaining about it for about as long as it existed (but
nobody coming with anything better either) :)

About the API, one request I would have is to make sure to update any
script used in production by the Ubuntu project ahead of making any
backward-incompatible API change.


Those scripts are in lp:ubuntu-archive or in the cdimage branches and
are responsible for auto-posting images to the tracker, triggering
builds upon request and doing the image publishing for milestones.

We don't exercise all of those daily so it can be weeks/months before we
notice a breakage and having to fix things in a rush as we are trying to
push a milestone out the door isn't much fun.


Keep up the great work!

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.canonical.com
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