[Buildroot] [PATCH next v2 4/5] support/scripts/pkg-stats-new: add latest upstream version information

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:17:26 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:

> > This will allow to make sure the script terminates properly. However,
> > it means that the result of the script may be different from one run to
> > the other, as the HTTP request for a given package may sometimes take
> > more than 15 seconds, sometimes not.  
> 
> Do you mean the generated html will be different?

Yes, the HTML would be different: if for a first run, the request for
package "foo" timeouts the HTML will say "unknown upstream version".
Then for a second run of the script, the request for package "foo"
doesn't timeout (release-monitoring.org was faster), then the HTML will
have a proper value for the upstream version.

> Will the script retry for a package that timeouts?

So far it doesn't.

> The upstream is working to provide api_v2 that will improve various aspects.
> The main changes in the api are a new field ecosystem (it will contain pypi for
> python packages, upstream url for custom projects, ...) and the paging system in
> the web interface.
> The new api will also provide the mapping:
> url/api/v2/projects?distribution=Buildroot
> I tested this by running a local server with a copy of the production database.
> Sample output:
> ...
> {
>     "distribution": "Buildroot", 
>     "ecosystem": "https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/", 
>     "name": "samba4", 
>     "project": "samba"
> }, 
> ...
> 
> Most changes in the code look (to me) ready and the upstream is currently
> setting up a staging server.
> Api v2 is *not yet* deployed to release-monitoring. I don't know the upstream
> timeline for this.
> 
> In the meanwhile, the solution you propose seems to be the best we can do using
> api v1.
> 
> Right now there is a single direct user of the script (the server that
> generates the html), so a time penalty is not critical.
> All the other users (we) will access the already generated pkg-stats html.

Yes, that was the idea.

> But I think it is better to upgrade to api v2 before we provide this script as a
> build target to generate a report based on the packages selected by .config .
> I think you mentioned something similar in an e-mail I unfortunately can't find
> right now.

Indeed, when the v2 API is available, we will definitely revisit this
and use pre-downloaded data.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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