Tobias Bieniek

@jplatte do you know if there is a reason why the inner jars are not exposed as public API? seems like that would simplify the implementation quite a bit 🤔

> Are you suggesting we expose the inner jars alongside the current convenience methods maybe :D I don't know the history of this extractor, so before I can form an...

> any input on making published dates available in the Index I'm all for it :) > what do we name the field we use `created_at` in the database, but...

if it helps, we can implement it on the crates.io side with a feature flag that we only turn on for the staging servers. might help with testing older cargo...

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/12315 implements it on the crates.io side :)

the backfill would be semi-automatic on a per-crate basis. in other words: when you publish a new version of a crate, all old versions will automatically be backfilled. but we...

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/12315 has been approved now, so we can merge it whenever we decide that to move forward with it. let me know if we should try it out on staging.

I've enabled the `pubtime` feature on staging now: https://github.com/rust-lang/staging.crates.io-index/blob/master/cr/at/crates-staging-test-tb. The field currently has microsecond precision, which was unintended. I'll reduce it down to second precision in a follow-up PR.

@weihanglo @epage can you let me know once you've confirmed that the new fields does not break older cargo versions? I'm happy to enable this on production once we have...

when you say FCP, are you talking about an FCP in the RFC context or a different kind of FCP? in any case, I'm not against it if you think...