Fredrik Adelöw

properly print instructions when the api reports don't match

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When we upgraded the libraries underpinning this, the log messages also changed, so we weren't getting the nice output in CI anymore. https://github.com/backstage/backstage/actions/runs/11039925478/job/30666829948?pr=26372#step:14:191 Before: ``` Warning: You have changed the...

Deprecate

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Hey there! Now that the plugin is completely available and maintained [out of the community-plugins repo](https://github.com/backstage/community-plugins/tree/main/workspaces/grafana/plugins/grafana), I would humbly ask whether it might be time to deprecate this entire repository,...

add a `createDeferred` and `DeferredPromise` to the types

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We keep rewriting these over and over again, sometimes forgetting about the `void` case and getting frustrated or not supporting promises for the resolution etc. Let's finally make a central...

slightly speed up the refresh loop

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This does two things to the `getProcessableEntities` call: * No longer run it in a transaction. This really doesn't matter for this use case. * Do not fetch the `processed_entity`...

scaffolder: use test databases instead of DatabaseManager

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This is on top of #29017. Just lightly rewrote the tests to use `TestDatabases` instead of the `DatabaseManager` from `@backstage/backend-common`. Ignore whitespace while reviewing. These tests were unfortunately hard coded...

Add a standard `toString` on credentials objects

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This is useful when cache-keying, or wanting to log a string form, or track credentials of actors in a database, etc. One such example is techdocs caching reads [here](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/a58e48e983224686a9ef7862d6b29976dd202732/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/service/CachedEntityLoader.ts#L44), which...

Implements https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/8219, by making the software catalog track history internally and emitting them as events.

skip the very first search on opening the app

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Fixes https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/31695 We could take this further, and never send any requests at all when there's no input - not just on first mount. Let me know if that's preferable...

introduce generic catalog scm events handling

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## Goals Builtin SCM event reactions in the catalog, speeding up feedback loops and reducing the need for manual catalog management. * Put a system in place for translating any...