Request Page Redesign - Build Results Summary Gets Into Shape

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.

Submit Your Packages in SCM/CI Workflows

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.

Post-mortem: Database Cluster Crashes

Request Page Redesign - See Diff Comments Outside Beta and Set Bug Owner Action

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.

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

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

Post-mortem: Staging Workflow Unavailable

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.

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

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.

OpenAPI 3.0.0 Specification for the Open Build Service HTTP API

Starting today, the OpenAPI Specification presented through Swagger UI becomes the official API documentation for Open Build Service 🎉

Request Page Redesign - Maintenance Action Types

After a while keeping working on the request page redesign, we are glad to come back to you with two new request types: maintenance incident requests and maintenance release requests.

Newly Documented API Endpoints for Comments, Status Messages and Staging

You hopefully have seen our new openAPI Documentation. You might have, since it’s now linked from the old documentation. Besides that change, we spent some of our development time on new documentation on Comments, Status Messages and Staging Workflows.

Post-mortem: Lack of Emails/Notifications from April 6 to April 11, 2023

After implementing the feature that allows the users to comment on specific lines in the changes of a request, we also introduced the possibility to notify about them. However, there was a corner case which caused the notifications to fail, so our reference server did not send any web notifications or emails during the Easter holidays (from 6th to 11th April).

Request Page Redesign - Two More Action Types and Better Comments on Changes

We are back to working on the request page redesign. This time we have focused on improving comments on lines in the Changes tab, enhancing the requests with multiple actions and supporting requests that intend to delete projects/packages and to change the development package of a package.

Continuing on API Endpoint Documentation for Package and File Sources

You might have been already using our new openAPI Documentation. We now want to let you know we added some more documentation about package endpoints and we added the new section about file endpoints.

Request Page Redesign - Diff Comments, Request Actions for Role Additions, and More

For some time now we have been working on the request page redesign. This time we have focused on adding comments on changed or removed lines in a diff, supporting add role requests, and enhancing the requests with multiple actions.

Post-mortem: Downtime on February 23, 2023

Some maintenance operations plus a missing configuration rollback caused a 20 minutes certificate error on our reference server.

Update on the SCM/CI Integration - Performance and Documentation Improvements

We took another step on the SCM/CI integration of the Open Build Service. This time we improved the rendering time of the workflow runs UI and enhanced the user documentation.

Post-mortem: Failing email deliveries on 6th February, 2023

Our reference server stopped sending out email notifications on February 3th, 2023. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.

Request Page Redesign - Facilitating the Review Process

Collaboration is the heart of the OBS project. Therefore, we have been working on the request page redesign for a while, the page where most of the collaboration happens. This time, we have focused on improving the handling of requests with multiple actions, facilitating the review process by enhancing the code changes and helping out with decision-making, among others.

Post-mortem: Downtime on January 5, 2023

Some maintenance operations caused a long downtime on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.

More Flexibility for Workflows in the OBS and SCM Integration

Right in time for the holiday season, we have prepared you a gift for the continuous integration between OBS and SCMs. We are introducing placeholder variables and for your workflows configuration files, a customizable location. Let’s see how this new flexibility helps you in your work.