launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 June 2010 10:20, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24 June 2010 21:18, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> See here the requirement:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-quickly
>>
>> I would really prefer to avoid as much as possible "that bad way" to
>> communicate to launchpad and so close to regular breakage and so on.
>> Is there any way to make this less hackish than screenscraping and get a
>> proper way?
>
> I don't know the background (like why this is hard to add to an API)
> but perhaps there is a middle ground of using XQuery or similar
> against a Launchpad page, and adding microformat data into the page
> template?  Or is the problem that CoC-signing implies doing an email
> GPG transaction?

Poking into this a little bit it seems the actual work needed on
Launchpad is <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/568981>
and <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/568982>,
wanting to set gpg and ssh keys via the API?  So readonly-oriented
structural screenscraping is not a great alternative.

I would guess it would be fairly easy to add those APIs by cargo culting others?

-- 
Martin