Last year, thanks to one of our most special collaborators, Moisés, we introduced a “Dark Mode” option for the Open Build Service (OBS) web interface. You might remember the section titled “Introducing the Dark Mode” from one of our blog posts. At that time, it was released under the beta program.
Read more...Over the last few days, we’ve been focused on improving how responsibility is tracked in packages. Today, we’re excited to introduce Assignments.
Read more...Over the last few weeks we worked to improve the functionality of Labels. Now, we are ready to present the fruit of that labour.
Read more...So, we’re back working on the redesigned Request page with some improvements.
Read more...Another round of changes for the request index beta feature! This time we improved working with requests for a group by using the request index ui you already use in package, project and in “Your Requests”. We also expanded the request index by adding two more filters.
Read more...We’re continuously improving the request index page! In addition to the filters we recently introduced, we’ve now added three more: priority, creation time, and reviewer. Try them out and see how they enhance your workflow!
Read more...We worked diligently to bring you the next set of improvements to the ways to collaborate in OBS. With that we are happy to announce you will now be able to label all of your projects and subprojects, to allow yourself and other users better understand what purpose they serve at a glance.
Read more...A few months ago, we introduced the Request Index Page feature in OBS. Recently, we added new filters to help users narrow down requests by staging projects and by request creators. The filters have also been improved to consider reviews, which is particularly useful for finding staging project requests.
Read more...Recently we kicked off a new feature in OBS: a request index page. It is unified for all the different places: the same UI is now also available in Project details page and in Package details page.
Read more...Today we want to tell you about three significant improvements we have just introduced that make it easier to collaborate on the request page. Those improvements are part of the beta program.
Read more...Not long ago, we introduced several new features in OBS designed to foster collaboration among users. Today, we’re excited to announce a series of improvements to the newly introduced labels feature, which will help you better work with your projects and packages.
Read more...In the latest set of improvements coming to the content moderation feature we focused on improving the experience of moderators reviewing incoming reports. By including more information about the state of reports we make it easier for moderators to comprehend the user reported content in the notifications. This will lower the time the moderators need to respond to reports.
Read more...We’ve introduced several new features in OBS designed to foster collaboration among OBS users. Customized labels for better organization, setting custom links for your bug tracker and markdown formatting for project/package descriptions. Those features are intended to give you more insight into your work, helping you stay focused on what matters most.
Read more...We kicked off a new feature in OBS. The goal is to have a unified way of listing requests for all the different places like packages, projects and what is currently found under “Tasks”. We started this by porting some of the core functionality of the “Tasks” page to the new unified version with a couple of search and filter options. The Request Index feature is part of the beta program and the requests list can be found under Requests on the on the Places menu.
Read more...We have heard your suggestions and have introduced a way to filter the requests-related notifications by request state. This new filter will help you focus on what really requires your attention.
Read more...In this round of SCM/CI Integration improvements, we have simplified the way you can filter by event source and have modified the notifications about workflow run failures to reach users or groups the token is shared with.
Read more...Notifications have always been part of your workflow. Now, we are glad to present a set of changes, including a revamped filtering section. Let’s get into the details!
Read more...Over the past weeks, we’ve spent some time improving the Content Moderation feature within OBS. Users now have the ability to block other users. We focused on making it easier for Moderators to act on reports, by implementing “decision actions”, which allow Moderators to perform moderation actions while making decisions. We also created a dedicated comment section for Moderators to be able to discuss the report with the reporter.
Read more...Every time your source code management system (github, gitlab etc.) sends a webhook to OBS to trigger a SCM/CI Workflow, we give our best to record what is happening during (and in case of builds even after) your workflow’s steps run. We do this because this is a complicated feature, involving two very large applications, where lot’s of things can go wrong. So you need loads of information to debug once something is.
Read more...So, we’re back after Easter Holidays! In this blog post we’re going to see some improvements we’ve been working on lately on the redesigned Request page.
Read more...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.
Read more...A quick update on the Request Page Redesign: the build summary chart bars are now clickable.
Read more...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!
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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!
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Today we’re going to explain the versioning system we’re using to release new features to the SCM/CI integration.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read 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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...You might already use the email channel to get notified about build failures on package builds. From now on you can also subscribe to receive those notifications through the web channel and review them directly in the Open Build Service.
Read more...Once again, we worked on the request workflow. This time we have delivered a renovated interface to show the build results, ready to be consumed by the most demanding palates. Besides that, we have cooked up a couple of additions arranged on several tabs for the hungriest. Just keep reading, help yourself and enjoy.
Read more...We don’t stop improving the requests workflow and we are actively working on the feedback. This time we worked on including conversations from superseded requests and presenting build results.
Read more...As we disclosed a few days ago, the roll-out of the SCM/CI feature was not the end. The proof is that we are here to announce another important milestone regarding the OBS SCM/CI integration. Starting today, Gitea is available for you to be integrated with OBS!
Read more...We enabled the new watchlist feature in February 2022 under the beta program. Since then, we have been improving this feature thanks to the valuable feedback coming from our users. Moving forward today, we are now ready to push it out of the beta program and make it generally available in OBS.
Read more...In May of 2021 we took our first steps towards putting OBS builds into the continuous integration cycle with the SCM/CI feature. Thanks to the valuable feedback we received from users who started as early testers and became heavy users of the feature, we are ready today to push it out of the beta program, making it generally available in OBS.
Read more...Previously we started the redesign of the request workflow as part of the beta program. We received a lot of feedback from you and still have a lot on our TODO list. This time we focused our attention on the support of multi-action submit requests and on creating more clarity in the conversations area by highlighting comments.
Read more...We strive to continuously improve the OBS and find new ways to provide you with a better user experience. For a while now, we have worked our way through the OBS collaboration workflow. How do you learn what other people have done? How can you pay attention to things you are not involved in directly? How can you learn more about the people that you collaborate with?
Read more...We’re back with a new change in SCM/CI integration. This time with support for a new way of fetching sources from your SCM, the OBS Git Bridge.
Read more...With the introduction of the workflows, a wide range of integrations became available for individual users. Now those integrations start to get interesting at team level too. But, until now, you could not use the same workflow token with a group of users. We’ve fixed that for you.
Read more...Another round of SCM/CI integration. This time we focused on a better separation between the incoming webhooks and the status reports we send back to the SCM for the individual workflow runs. On top of this we made the error messages more meaningful, in case something goes wrong when reporting back to the SCM.
Read more...Would you like to be notified if someone adds you as, let’s say, maintainer of a project? We know many of you would, we have read your feedback 😉 and that’s the reason why we have introduced two new types of notifications. OBS can now inform you when someone adds or removes you from a project or package with any kind of role.
Read more...Many of you are taking advantage of the SCM/CI integration in OBS. Sometimes the integration fails and it’s hard to find out why. In the last weeks, we have focused on improving the error handling and adding more meaningful error messages to make things easier for you.
Read more...After receiving feedback from users of OBS workflows in the SCM/CI integration, we are now introducing a step to trigger services of a package. Do not forget to join the beta program before trying this out.
Read more...Did you join the beta program, but somehow wish you could disable a specific beta feature? This is now possible with the new Manage Beta Features page.
Read more...In our previous blog post, we announced a new beta feature that allows you to add packages and requests to your watchlist, not only projects. With that improvement, what really matters is more accessible for you. But this time, we have gone one step further and you can also start receiving notifications about relevant events related to those packages and requests you have in your watchlist.
Read more...Your watchlist, where you keep your most used projects, now supports packages and requests.
Read more...Today, we have some improvements around the continuous integration we unveiled in one of our previous blog posts. We expanded the workflow run interface, added a new type of step to configure repository flags, and introduced a breaking change to the configure_repositories step.
Read more...We are happy to release the Notifications feature for all the OBS users. 
After testing it with the beta program’s users for some months, we believe it is ready to be used by all of you.
From now on, you will be notified about some important events, not only via email or RSS feeds but also via web UI.
We go further with the SCM/CI workflow integration in OBS. You, beta testers, had difficulties in understanding why your integration failed when something did not go as planned. This is solved with the new workflow runs UI feature, with detailed information about every workflow that ran once you triggered a workflow token. Keep reading for more details.
Read more...We don’t stop improving the integration between OBS and SCMs. We heard your feedback and created a section in our OBS user manual and redesigned the tokens UI, among other improvements you can read below.
Read more...After a long break, we’re back with improvements for the notifications feature part of the beta program. Based on your feedback, we have introduced filters for your group notifications, a button to mark all your notifications as read and a notifications API.
Read more...We again moved forward with the integration of source code management systems (SCM) in the Open Build Service. This time with a new rebuild step, support for push events, and filter for branches and events. Some of the new features introduce breaking changes for existing workflows. So keep reading if you want to know how to adapt your existing workflows and how to use the new features.
Read more...After a quiet vacation month in August, we’re back with changes to improve workflows in the integration between OBS and source code management systems (SCM) like GitHub and GitLab. Workflows are cleaning up after themselves when pull/merge requests are closed or merged. And additionally to that, you can now regenerate and trigger tokens in the web UI.
Read more...Branching packages is not enough for you? Let’s go step by step 😉 OBS moves forward on its integration with GitHub/GitLab by adding two new steps: link_package and configure_repositories. Starting today, you can set up your OBS workflows to create a package linked to an existing one. You can also configure the repositories of a project in which you want to build packages. And as if that weren’t enough, you are now able to manage the tokens through the web UI. Join the beta program and keep reading to discover all you can do.
Read more...Many of you are already playing around with our new beta feature: Source Code Management (SCM) system integration with OBS. You might have faced some errors during this time.
Read more...Today, based on some new feedback regarding the SCM integration, we have some news for those of you that enrolled in our beta program
Read more...Today, we have some improvements for the continuous integration we unveiled in our previous blog post.
Read more...Most of the code you implement nowadays is managed collaboratively through source code management (SCM) systems like GitHub, GitLab or Pagure. And an increasing number of you also want to handle their package sources with those systems. While there are various ways to integrate OBS into your SCM, they can definitely be extended and improved. In today’s post, we are sharing the first beta for a deeper integration between SCMs and OBS.
Read more...It’s time to roll out another new feature! The User Profile page redesign. After being in the beta program for a while, your feedback has been applied. Now, all OBS users can enjoy the new design of the User Profile page.
Read more...Flatpak is a software for building, installing and running Linux apps. The runtime offers a sandbox with restricted permissions. Each app comes as a bundle, and while two different apps can depend on different versions of the same dependency, they can run isolated from each other in parallel.
Read more...Those of you enrolled in the beta program already know the Notifications page we introduced a while ago. Recently, we introduced two new filters: Incoming Requests and Outgoing Requests.
Read more...After a few months in the beta program, we’re ready to roll the navigation redesign out of beta, making it available to all OBS users.
Read more...August this year we started to introduce a new pattern in the webui, the left side navigation. From the technical side this is just working fine, but an important piece was still missing, called consistency. We heard your feedback, here is what we did…
Read more...As part of the developer engagement program, SUSE has kicked off the development of the Open Build Service Connector, an extension that brings the Open Build Service into Visual Studio Code!
Read more...On our quest to improve usability, we’ve been tuning various parts of OBS. This time, we’ve worked on the navigation and redesigned the profile page. All of this is available in the beta program, so be sure to join if you haven’t done so already!
Read more...This time we’re gonna talk about notifications. Those of you that joined the beta program gave us some feedback about them. It’s never too late to join the beta program ;)
Read more...Considering the feedback provided by those of you enrolled in our beta program, we came up with another revised navigation structure. The new design displays the main navigation elements on a fixed left column where the options are always visible. We believe this solution brings many advantages and is more intuitive and user-friendly than before.
Read more...How do you think we keep our reference instance up and running?
Read more...It’s time again to talk about the notifications. On our journey to a full-fledged notification system, we put our emphasis on the content of the notifications and kept improving several UI parts to increase productivity and user experience.
Read more...One of the goals we pursue currently is to make you more productive on the go, while away from the computer. So we have spent some time to make it easier for you to change projects and packages in all screen sizes in the OBS user interface.
Read more...Are you member of our beta program and can’t find your package actions?
Read more...Previously we started to introduce a new notification area in the Open Build Service web interface. The goal of this is to enable the users to stay on one medium to get the work done. There is no need to continuously switch between the browser and email-clients to see where some actions are needed.
Read more...In the recent past, there have been quite some attempts, by different contributors, to migrate the OBS API to Ruby on Rails version 6, which came out August last year. Lately, this got revisited by Lukas Krause as part of the SUSE Hack Week.
Read more...One more time we direct our effort to responsiveness, there is a lot to do in this regard and we are proud of our achivements during the last weeks. We heard your feedback and improved the navigation and we have a couple of new things to notify you about… go on reading.
Read more...If you believe so, we’re hopefully going to change your opinion next time you surf OBS within our beta program. In the last two weeks, we kept working in improving responsiveness following a mobile-first approach. Lots of issues were fixed and a bunch of changes were made.
Read more...Do you like checking the status of your OBS account on the way to work? While sitting on the sofa? On a flight?
Read more...The year is coming to an end and we have stopped for a while to look back. Wow! 
Time flies and we have lived a lot of experiences and achieved so many goals.
This is probably the last post related to revamping our user interface (UI).
Read more...In the last couple of weeks we continued tackling the typography issues in the new UI.
Read more...We tackled typography issues after receiving feedback from multiple users.
Read more...This is part 5 of a series of posts about revamping the user interface of OBS. We started off with the Package pages in October 2018, moved on to the Project, User and Group pages in December 2018, continued with the Request pages in February 2019 and migrated the Configuration pages in March 2019. We then finished the Maintenance pages in April 2019, the Search and Kiwi Editor pages were completed in May 2019. In June 2019 we focused on the Cloud and Monitor pages. The whole migration was finished in September 2019, bye bye bento!.
Read more...This is part 4 of a series of posts about revamping the user interface of OBS. We started off with the Package pages in October 2018, moved on to the Project, User and Group pages in December 2018, continued with the Request pages in February 2019 and migrated the Configuration pages in March 2019. We then finished the Maintenance pages in April 2019, the Search and Kiwi Editor pages were completed in May 2019. In June 2019 we focused on the Cloud and Monitor pages. The whole migration was finished in September 2019, bye bye bento!.
Read more...This is part 3 of a series of posts about revamping the user interface of OBS. We started off with the Package pages in October 2018, moved on to the Project, User and Group pages in December 2018, continued with the Request pages in February 2019 and migrated the Configuration pages in March 2019. We then finished the Maintenance pages in April 2019, the Search and Kiwi Editor pages were completed in May 2019. In June 2019 we focused on the Cloud and Monitor pages. The whole migration was finished in September 2019, bye bye bento!.
Read more...This is part 2 of a series of posts about revamping the user interface of OBS. We started off with the Package pages in October 2018, moved on to the Project, User and Group pages in December 2018, continued with the Request pages in February 2019 and migrated the Configuration pages in March 2019. We then finished the Maintenance pages in April 2019, the Search and Kiwi Editor pages were completed in May 2019. In June 2019 we focused on the Cloud and Monitor pages. The whole migration was finished in September 2019, bye bye bento!.
Read more...This is part 1 of a series of posts about revamping the user interface of OBS. We started off with the Package pages in October 2018, moved on to the Project, User and Group pages in December 2018, continued with the Request pages in February 2019 and migrated the Configuration pages in March 2019. We then finished the Maintenance pages in April 2019, the Search and Kiwi Editor pages were completed in May 2019. In June 2019 we focused on the Cloud and Monitor pages. The whole migration was finished in September 2019, bye bye bento!.
Read more...Do you want to try the latest features in OBS, even before they are released? Do you wonder how the development of OBS is going? Or, would you like to help us finding bugs? Then you will love the new beta program! By joining the program, you will be able to try the latest features ongoing development and give us feedback on them.
Read more...People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-08-27 to 2018-09-06). 
People of the Builds! 
Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved from 2018-08-13 to 2018-08-23.
People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-07-30 to 2018-08-09).
People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-07-15 to 2018-07-26). 
We are proud to announce that the new Azure cloud upload feature has just been released.
Read more...It has been quite a lot of time since our last blog post. 
We were so focussed in our Hackweek projects last week that we didn’t find time to write about our last sprints. But now that they are already finished, it is time to keep you up-to-date with the development of OBS! This is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two sprints (2018-06-18 to 2018-07-06), being the last sprint only one week due to the start of the Hackweek.
People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-06-04 to 2018-06-15).
Read more...People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-05-21 to 2018-06-01).
Read more...Summer arrived in Germany and the openSUSE Conference is knocking on the door, but we are still busy hacking and improving OBS. Keep on reading if you want to know more what we did the last two weeks (2018-05-07 to 2018-05-18).
Read more...People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-04-16 to 2018-05-04).
Read more...People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-04-02 to 2018-04-13).
Read more...Have you already discovered all the hidden Easter eggs 
in build.opensuse.org?
If not, don’t worry and keep on reading our latest sprint report (2018-03-19 to 2018-03-29) and we will show you 
.
People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-03-05 to 2018-03-16).
Read more...Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-19 to 2018-03-02).
Read more...We just released the new EC2 cloud upload feature that allows you to upload your EC2 images to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from OBS.
People of the Builds! And another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-05 to 2018-02-16).
Read more...People of the Builds! Our last Sprint (2018-01-22 to 2018-02-02) report comes a little bit late,
as our email notifications 
,
but it is finally here!
The upcoming release of OBS 2.9 will allow you to integrate your RabbitMQ server with OBS’s internal events system.
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-01-08 to 2018-01-19).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-12-11 to 2017-12-21).
Read more...The year is coming to an end, all the 🎁 lie under the 🎄 and the 🍾 is already cold for 🎆. Being the good agile folks that we are, we think this is the perfect time to reflect on 2017. On all the code, the bugs and fixes, features and refactorings, the tunes and adjustments we have introduced to our code base, process and tool belt. Not only to trace the steps of our journey, but also to get ideas how to become more effective in 2018.
So let’s look at some of the highlights that have happened this year. Bear with us, this is a very long post, but one worth reading, promised!
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-11-27 to 2017-12-08).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-23 to 2017-11-09).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-09 to 2017-10-20).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last three weeks (2017-09-19 to 2017-10-06).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-09-04 to 2017-09-18).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-08-21 to 2017-09-01).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-08-07 to 2017-08-18).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-07-24 to 2017-08-04).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-07-10 to 2017-07-21).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-06-26 to 2017-07-07).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-05-12 to 2017-06-23).
Read more...Since we were preparing for OSC17 we had a little break and suspended our SCRUM sprint for one week. Now we are back! And this is what we have accomplished in sprint 17 (2017-05-29 to 2017-06-09).
Read more...Here are the results the OBS frontend developer team has achieved in the last 2 weeks (2017-05-08 to 2017-05-19).
Read more...This is the first in a series of posts in which the frontend hackers want to report to the OBS community about the progress they have made developing the web user interface and the API of the OBS. You can expect these posts to come in roughly every 2 weeks, and we very much hope you enjoy them!
But first things first, let us introduce how we are getting to these results.
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