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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Zenon,
   on cat-test you now have two links. One points to "branch", which is
essentially the bug-fix branch under preparation of the next minor
release. The other is "trunk" which has the new features that we are
currently working on. While "branch" is reasonably stable, "trunk" can
give you all sorts of surprises, so be warned.

Your API keys have now been included in both of these.
branch is newer then cat.eduroam.org, but the database is indeed a
snapshot of the production database copied some time ago.

trunk runs on the same data.

In general we cannot guarantee that the database will not be
overwritten. It is not easy to keep the data. For instance, now we have
a different database scheme between branch and trunk, so we must run two
separate instances which will cause problems for the testers, as they
may have to do things twice.

We need the run a big database of IdPs also on cat-test, we had some
performance issues some time ago and need data to test it.
In fact I would find it arguable if it should not be a good idea to
regularly push data from production to cat-test instead of keeping the
old data, as you requested. If we have the current database then all
production admins can test new features on their existing profiles. Of
course such updated would need to be announced, but it could be a good idea.



Cheers and Merry Christmas to Everyone

Tomasz

W dniu 2015-12-22 o 23:08, Zenon Mousmoulas pisze:
> Hi,
>
> we used to use the CAT instance at https://cat-test.eduroam.org/test/
> for testing and staging. We also had an API key for auto-enrolling
> institutions there. Nowadays the front page points to /branch which is
> said to run on the latest CAT code. There was some enrollment issue
> there (mail-related, which was resolved (thanks). However the API key
> for /test does not work on /branch; is this intentional, i.e. do I
> need to ask for a new key? Furthermore the data on /branch is
> different from /test -- it looks like an older snapshot from
> cat.eduroam.org. Would it be possible to restore the data from /test?
> If /test shall be retired and be succeeded by /branch, in our opinion
> it would be good for institutions not to lose the data from /test,
> although it was always clear it was not a production service. We also
> keep track of all enrollments so we provide links for institution
> admins to navigate directly to the IdP overview (after logging in) and
> profiles pages. We are obviously missing this data for /branch and it
> would be cumbersome to recreate it.
>
> Thanks and Merry Christmas,
> Z.
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