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development

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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deployments

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...
development

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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development

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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deployments

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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deployments

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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releases

OpenAPI 3.0.0 Specification for the Open Build Service HTTP API

by the OBS Team posted on 6th Jun 2023

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

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development

Request Page Redesign - Maintenance Action Types

by the OBS Team posted on 1st Jun 2023

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.

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Newly Documented API Endpoints for Comments, Status Messages and Staging

by the OBS Team posted on 2nd May 2023

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.

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deployments

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

by the OBS Team posted on 12th Apr 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).

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development

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

by the OBS Team posted on 4th Apr 2023

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.

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Continuing on API Endpoint Documentation for Package and File Sources

by the OBS Team posted on 21st Mar 2023

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.

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development

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

by the OBS Team posted on 7th Mar 2023

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.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Downtime on February 23, 2023

by the OBS Team posted on 24th Feb 2023

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

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development

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

by the OBS Team posted on 20th Feb 2023

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.

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