A while back I mentioned that there was going to be a new PackageDB that had some API visible changes. Most notably that the PackageDB was going to start returning and taking only usernames and groupnames instead of the mixture of username/groupname and userid/groupid. This version of the packagedb has settled enough that I have a test instance up in our staging environment. You can access it here: https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ There are likely to be many bugs (I've already encountered some bugs in the treatment of orphaned packages). Please feel free to report them directly to me for now. If you have scripts that access the packagedb, now would be a good time to start testing whether the scripts work with the new version out of the box or need porting. The userid => username switch is likely to be the biggest change. Most code that needs porting for this should be simpler after the porting is done. There has also been some work to the authentication code and a few minor changes to the API. If you think you are running into problems here and need me to look at how your code can be ported to work with the new version feel free to contact me via IRC (abadger1999) or email. Note on security: This test instance is running in our staging environment. The staging environment has a valid SSL certificate and very closely mirrors what is in the production environment. The servers here authenticate against a staging FAS server. This server is populated with data from the production environment but is allowed to diverge. So if you trust that the staging environment is as secure as the production environment (Most things are the same but staging is built to test changes to our environment before they go to production) you can use your normal fas username/password. If you'd rather not use your fas password, you can go to: https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/resetpass to reset your password in the staging environment. Note that some links on the FAS pages (notably, the "Forgot Password?" and "Sign Up" links point to the real FAS server instead of the staging account server due to how our templating currently works. Be sure when you are making changes that the URL is for https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org rather than https://admin.fedoraproject.org. -Toshio
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