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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Launchpadders,

I had a chat with the Kernel team at Canonical the other day, and they
emphasised just how much they use the Launchpad API to do their
day-to-day tasks, and how it would be much better if it were:
 a) faster
 b) more reliable
 c) more informative when it does fail

They haven't noticed the recent speed-ups that many other folk have
commented on. My guess is that will notice soon, as long as we keep
pushing on our performance work.

If you are interested in bug workflow, or in the Launchpad API, you
should take a look at these scripts. They represent things that people
need to do with Launchpad, and it's always good to know that. Also,
there are probably ways to make them faster that are obvious to folk
familiar with Launchpad's internals. If you make the scripts faster,
you make the Kernel team more productive and thus make my network
driver less likely to crash.

create-release-tracker, create-stable-tracker and create-cve-tracker
are all good starting points.

jml

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brad Figg <brad.figg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Subject: Kernel team scripts ...
To: Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/kteam-tools.git;a=tree
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/kteam-tools.git;a=tree;f=stable;h=2e4ee079e87a59bdc11d892bd4afb8205b7ce2dd;hb=HEAD

Any questions, feel free to ask. I do most of the LP api work
for the team though some others are starting to become more
involved.

You are probably aware of the Arsenal scripts that Bryce
developed. He and I have been working on a second generation
of those and many of the LP api tools we developed are using
that.
 bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~arsenal-devel/arsenal/python-launchpadlib-toolkit/

Look at create-release-tracker, create-stable-tracker,
create-cve-tracker as examples.

Brad
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