Server offline, package and tests don't work anymore

[Andreas Hasenack]

The server used by python-etelemetry seems to be offline for quite some time now[1]. Even following the README instructions on how to use the package fails now:

$ python3
Python 3.10.6 (main, Aug 10 2022, 11:19:32) [GCC 12.1.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import etelemetry
>>> etelemetry.get_project("nipy/nipype")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 174, in _new_conn
    conn = connection.create_connection(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 96, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 86, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)
TimeoutError: timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 704, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1043, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 358, in connect
    self.sock = conn = self._new_conn()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 179, in _new_conn
    raise ConnectTimeoutError(
urllib3.exceptions.ConnectTimeoutError: (<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fcabae630a0>, 'Connection to rig.mit.edu timed out. (connect timeout=5)')

(...)

Tests are also failing in debian[2] and ubuntu[3].

We could skip these tests, as they rely on network, but I don't know what this package can do without that central server being up, i.e., how useful it remains being without that server.

There is a PR[4] to allow custom endpoints, maybe it can help.

1. https://github.com/sensein/etelemetry-client/issues/35
2. https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/p/python-etelemetry/24654839/log.gz
3. https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-kinetic/kinetic/amd64/p/python-etelemetry/20220812_192355_57dbb@/log.gz
4. https://github.com/sensein/etelemetry-client/pull/39