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Pull data from Conduit instead of custom database dump
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Phlogiston pulls data from a custom, daily dump of Phabricator data. It was built this way, instead of using Conduit, for [historical reasons I don't remember - maybe Conduit wasn't considered stable enough in 2015, or maybe it lacked some key feature?]. We could rewrite Phlogiston to use Conduit instead.

Pro:
Would update data in real-time instead of daily. Possibly better support since Phlogiston is the only customer of its dump (afaik) while Conduit is more shared.

Con:
Would require a complete rewrite of the loading portion of Phlogiston. Could introduce security issues, since Phlogiston dump has been screened and tested in production against security data leaks.

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• JAufrecht created this task.Sep 13 2017, 10:14 PM
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• JAufrecht mentioned this in T123417: Create conduit method to query the feed and return records with relevant details populated instead of just a bunch of phids.Sep 13 2017, 10:16 PM
• ksmith subscribed.Sep 13 2017, 10:16 PM

Historical note: I believe at the time Phlogiston was designed, conduit did not expose transaction data for moving a task between columns within a project. I don't know if conduit supports this now.

There may have been other limitations as well.

• JAufrecht moved this task from To Be Triaged to Technical Debt on the Phlogiston board.Sep 13 2017, 10:16 PM
• JAufrecht edited projects, added Phlogiston (Technical Debt); removed Phlogiston.
Aklapper added a comment.Sep 14 2017, 9:47 AM
In T175872#3606202, @ksmith wrote:

Historical note: I believe at the time Phlogiston was designed, conduit did not expose transaction data for moving a task between columns within a project.

This. ^^

I don't know if conduit supports this now.

Maybe™: T123417#3604696

In T175872, @JAufrecht wrote:

Could introduce security issues

I trust a proper maintained upstream API more when it comes to access control implementation than some downstream low-level DB dump with hacks on top of it.

Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Sep 17 2020, 2:29 PM

Phlogiston is unmaintained. Declining its remaining open tasks. See T253964 for more info.

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