I tried to upload the (new) ibm.ibm_zhmc collection with a version 0.10.1 to the Automation Hub.

For more than half an hour, the import status said Pending and no log was shown. (The same tarball file uploaded to galaxy-dev took about 5 seconds to succeed).

At some point, the import status was shown as failed, along with this output:

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Status: Failed
Approval status: waiting for import to finish
Version: 0.10.1
Error message:
Invalid collection metadata. Config is enabled that requires version to be 1.0.0 or greater.
{{ File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/pulpcore/tasking/pulpcore_worker.py", line 384, in _perform_task
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/app/galaxy_ng/app/tasks/publishing.py", line 42, in import_and_move_to_staging
import_collection(
File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/pulp_ansible/app/tasks/collections.py", line 306, in import_collection
importer_result = process_collection(
File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/galaxy_importer/collection.py", line 77, in import_collection
return _import_collection(file, filename, file_url, logger, cfg)
File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/galaxy_importer/collection.py", line 147, in _import_collection
data = CollectionLoader(extract_dir, filename, cfg=cfg, logger=logger).load()
File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/galaxy_importer/loaders/collection.py", line 54, in load
self.manifest = self._load_manifest()
File "/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/galaxy_importer/loaders/collection.py", line 143, in _load_manifest
raise exc.ManifestValidationError(str(e)) from e}}
 
Importing with galaxy-importer 0.4.2 
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From the output I get it that versions below 1.0.0 are not permitted, and that is fine.

The issue is that the galaxy-importer package raises an exception that is not caught, so this looks to users like the software is broken.

One more thing to note: On the Automation Hub the importer version is Importing with galaxy-importer 0.4.2 and on galaxy-dev it is Importing with galaxy-importer 0.4.0.