News about OBS

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Enhancements in OBS Content Moderation: Canned Responses, User Insights, UI Upgrades, and Documentation Updates

by the OBS Team posted on 6th Mar 2024

Over the past few weeks, we’ve dedicated our efforts to enhancing content moderation within OBS. This time around, our focus has been on refining canned responses, implementing a comprehensive comment listing feature for individual users, making various UI enhancements, and updating our user documentation.

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Build Results Summary Chart Links to Build Results Overview

by the OBS Team posted on 19th Feb 2024

A quick update on the Request Page Redesign: the build summary chart bars are now clickable.

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SUSE BuildOPS Team

by BuildOBS Team posted on 31st Jan 2024

The SUSE BuildOPS Team is a dedicated team of DevOPS employees who provide OBS as a service to the community and assist with daily operations.

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Revamping the Request Build Status Page and Introducing the Dark Mode

by the OBS Team posted on 25th Jan 2024

The beginning of the year has started strong in OBS. We are glad to be back to you in a new year with a blog post full of interesting updates, most of them improving our Request page. Take a seat, a fresh breath, and enjoy!

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New and Improved Ways to Report

by the OBS Team posted on 21st Dec 2023

In order to be effective, the content moderation feature has to be featureful and streamlined, so now we expanded it with a new kind of reportable and an easier way to report creators of comments.

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Canned Responses and Moderator Decisions

by the OBS Team posted on 13th Dec 2023

Many reports can cover the same kind of violation of the rules, and handling it can be redundant. Moderators can customize their own set of canned responses in order to reuse them where they need it.

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deployments

Severe Service Degradation: OBS Unavailable

by the OBS Team posted on 11th Dec 2023

There was a service degradation of our reference server.

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Post-mortem: Service Degradation in the Notifications System

by the OBS Team posted on 1st Dec 2023
Absence of Notifications on the 27th of November Read more...
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Introducing Build Status Refresh and Other Insights on Our Request Page

by the OBS Team posted on 30th Nov 2023

In our latest iteration towards an even more user-friendly experience, we’re excited to share three key enhancements to our Request page. Get ready for a smoother and more informative ride!

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Notifications About Failed SCM/CI Workflows and More

by the OBS Team posted on 30th Oct 2023

A lot of things happen behind the scenes whenever OBS runs an SCM/CI workflow. Sometimes, you might want to know which workflow failed or completed successfully and the only way to do this is by visiting the workflow runs UI. This time we tried to improve this and other details in the SCM/CI integration.

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Introducing Comment Locking and Categories for Reports

by the OBS Team posted on 18th Oct 2023

Big projects usually shift the conversation to external bug tracking platforms and therefore don’t want to end up having lots of comments on their OBS project. For this reason we are introducing comment locks. On top of this we enhanced the reporting feature by a set of categories to ease the submission.

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Post-mortem: Service Degradation for Pages with Comments

by the OBS Team posted on 10th Oct 2023
OBS Pages Inaccessible on 19th of September Read more...
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Fed Up With Spam and Misconduct? OBS Acts Accordingly

by the OBS Team posted on 2nd Oct 2023

Have you detected any spam? Is some user misbehaving? Is there any project or package that looks suspicious? Starting today, you can easily report any problematic content from the OBS application itself! Our moderators will do the rest.

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Request Page Redesign - Build Results Summary Gets Into Shape

by the OBS Team posted on 8th Sep 2023

Lately, we have been working again on the request workflow redesign. We have introduced the build results summary of a request and improved the information displayed in the Mentioned Issues section. All these improvements will help you focus on what matters and better digest all the information you receive when you review or visit a request.

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Submit Your Packages in SCM/CI Workflows

by the OBS Team posted on 8th Aug 2023

Over the past weeks we worked hard to make it possible for you to create Submit Requests from within an SCM/CI Workflow. Now you can automate this step, making it easier to work with OBS in a more SCM-centric way.

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Post-mortem: Database Cluster Crashes

by the OBS Team posted on 3rd Aug 2023
Downtime on the afternoon of 3rd of August Read more...
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Request Page Redesign - See Diff Comments Outside Beta and Set Bug Owner Action

by the OBS Team posted on 11th Jul 2023

We have been working on the request workflow redesign and continuously trying to improve it with the help of your feedback. This time we have focused on showing diff comments for non-beta users and a new request type Set Bug Owner.

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SCM/CI Workflow Versions. Making Larger Changes Less Painful For You.

by the OBS Team posted on 30th Jun 2023

Today we’re going to explain the versioning system we’re using to release new features to the SCM/CI integration.

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Post-mortem: Staging Workflow Unavailable

by the OBS Team posted on 20th Jun 2023

In our efforts to add a distribution (Debian 12), we accidentally deleted an entry in our architecture database table. That made all attempts to fetch this architecture through associations crash.

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documentation

More Documented API Endpoints for Statistics, Status Project, Status Reports and Others

by the OBS Team posted on 12th Jun 2023

You have probably read about the release of the OpenAPI Documentation. That doesn’t mean the documentation is finished and static. On the contrary, we have recently introduced a few more endpoints and are looking forward to your contributions.

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