[00:24] <wgrant> stokachu: What are you trying to do?
[00:25] <wgrant> Indiscriminately getting publications from the Ubuntu primary archive doesn't seem very useful
[00:27] <stokachu> wgrant: i was attempting to query package information with it, i just gave up and parsed it through rmadison :X
[00:27] <wgrant> stokachu: That wasn't querying package information
[00:28] <wgrant> That was querying a random package from the Ubuntu primary archive.
[00:28] <wgrant> Indiscriminately.
[00:28] <wgrant> Also, "statusPublished" probably wants to be "status=Published"
[00:28] <stokachu> yea i couldnt find a good way in the api to pull package information via the api
[00:28] <wgrant> What information do you want?
[00:28] <wgrant> getPublishedBinaries on the Ubuntu primary archive will return a *lot* of publications
[00:28] <wgrant> potentially millions
[00:28] <wgrant> You will want to filter.
[00:29] <stokachu> yea i was hoping to pull stuff like Vcs-* and Section
[00:29] <stokachu> from the control files
[00:29] <stokachu> i realize i was not even close but i was making an attempt
[00:29] <wgrant> From which control files?
[00:29] <wgrant> Which packages?
[00:29] <wgrant> And why?
[00:29] <stokachu> just packages in main
[00:29] <wgrant> Any particular series?
[00:30] <stokachu> i was targetting raring and precise for now
[00:30] <wgrant> Simply asking Launchpad for every package in Ubuntu ever is probably not going to get you very far :)
[00:30] <wgrant> Also, those are source fields, not binary fields.
[00:30] <stokachu> yea i tried to use getPublishedSources but it there wasn't a way to give it a name
[00:31] <wgrant> source_name?
[00:31] <wgrant> Also, we don't store Vcs-*
[00:31] <wgrant> So you'd probably be better to just scrape this directly from Sources on a.u.c...
[00:31] <stokachu> yea that was my next attempt
[00:32] <stokachu> im trying to build a database of people in my group who work packages and pull different stuff like commit data etc
[00:32] <stokachu> mainly just scraping as much 'development' work as possible
[00:32] <wgrant> That sounds very expensive for not very much benefit
[00:32] <wgrant> You'd have to poll many thousands of branches regularly.
[00:33] <stokachu> well i'd have the people put in their branches they work on
[00:33] <stokachu> whether it was lp: or github etc
[00:33] <wgrant> Then why do you need to ask Launchpad for a bazillion branches, if they're just going to tell you that?
[00:34] <stokachu> well i wasn't intending on it, i was getting version information which i figured out i could use rmadison
[00:34] <wgrant> That still sounds excessive
[00:34] <wgrant> I'd just grab the Sources file
[00:34] <stokachu> that first oops message was from an initial attempt at which i extended the filters
[00:34] <wgrant> One file, with all version information for raring main
[00:35] <stokachu> yea thats what ill probably do
[00:35] <wgrant> API calls for sets of millions of objects probably aren't anything you ever want to do.
[00:35] <wgrant> There's always a filter you can apply.
[00:36] <stokachu> yea i was slowing making my way there