Open Build Service 2025-08-28T07:58:04+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org OBS Team Copyright (c) 2012 OBS Team Request Workflow Redesign: RPM Lint Results Filtering 2025-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/08/26/request-workflow-redesign// In the effort to bring the full release of this feature sooner, we continued our work on request workflow redesign with a small batch of changes and improvements. You can try these enhancements right now and bring us much needed feedback, as we inch closer to replacing the workflow with the new design. In this roundup, we bring one more feature to the RPM Lint page introduced earlier this month. We started the redesign of... Request Workflow Redesign: RPM Lint Results for Multibuild Flavors and other Improvements 2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/08/12/request-workflow-redesign// We are currently in the process of polishing and finalizing the last bits and pieces of the request workflow redesign beta in order to roll it out to everyone shortly. This time we put our hands on linking to the individual RPM lint results of multibuild flavors included in a request and easing the process of accepting a request. As a bonus, a summary for the individual RPM lint results of a package is now... OBS: Refining Your Notifications 2025-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/07/30/notifications-project-filter-and-group-maintainers// We’re back with a couple of features and improvements that landed recently. Together with some performance enhancements, these updates, driven by your feedback, aim to improve your experience with the OBS notifications. Get What You Need If you find yourself receiving a high volume of notifications, we highly recommend visiting your subscriptions page to fine-tune what you see. This allows you to narrow down your notifications and ensure your feed is as relevant as possible.... Two More Steps Toward a Better Requests Page: Grouped Actions and Accurate Labels 2025-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/07/16/request-redesign// As part of the ongoing redesign of the requests page, we’ve made two key improvements to make handling requests more intuitive and reliable. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. Then, in September 2022, we focused on the support of multi-action submit requests. We continued in October 2022 with improvements regarding the Build Results tab and superseded conversations, and we presented build results with a pinch of salt in November 2022.... User Friendly Canned Reponses UI and More Details of a Report 2025-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/06/25/content-moderation-ui// The latest improvements under the Content Moderation umbrella involves the Canned Responses UI which is more user friendly and additional information are provided for the report overview. Content Moderation is part of the beta program. Our journey into content moderation began back in October 2023, initially addressing comment locks and report categories. Since then, we’ve expanded this feature to include canned responses and moderator decisions, facilitating smoother request reporting and the reporting of users from... Improvements To RPM Lint Results and Reviewing Submit Requests 2025-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/06/04/improvements-to-reviewing-requests// In this update, we’re introducing two improvements that make reviewing RPM lint results and Submit Requests easier: a dedicated view for RPM lint results, and a clearer, more helpful display of build statuses in Submit Requests. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. Then, in September 2022, we focused on the support of multi-action submit requests. We continued in October 2022 with improvements regarding the Build Results tab and superseded conversations,... Dark Mode Is Now Available for Everyone! 2025-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/05/22/color-theming// 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. Today, we’re happy to announce that the “Color Themes” switch is now available to everyone, including the “Dark Mode” theme, with no beta program... Introducing Assignments 2025-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/05/15/foster-collaboration// Over the last few days, we’ve been focused on improving how responsibility is tracked in packages. Today, we’re excited to introduce Assignments. These updates are part of the Foster Collaboration beta program. You can find more information about the beta program here. Our efforts to foster collaboration started in August 2024, when we introduced labels and bug report links. Next, we’ve improved labels to foster collaboration. Then, we focused on labeling projects. In our last... Labeling outside of OBS with an API 2025-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/05/05/labels-api// Over the last few weeks we worked to improve the functionality of Labels. Now, we are ready to present the fruit of that labour. These updates are part of the Labels beta program. You can find more information about the beta program here. Our efforts to foster collaboration started in August 2024, when we introduced labels and bug report links. Next, we’ve improved labels to foster collaboration. Then, we focused on labeling projects. In our... Content Moderation 2025-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/04/16/content-moderation// UI/UX Improvements For the Redesigned Request Page 2025-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/04/02/ui-ux-improvements-for-redesigned-request-page// So, we’re back working on the redesigned Request page with some improvements. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. Then, in September 2022, we focused on the support of multi-action submit requests. We continued in October 2022 with improvements regarding the Build Results tab and superseded conversations, and we presented build results with a pinch of salt in November 2022. In January 2023, we worked on facilitating the review process. In... Requests For Groups And More Filters to the Request Index 2025-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/03/07/request-index// 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. We started the redesign of the request index in August 2024 introducing a new UI to list all the requests replacing the “Tasks” place in the menu. In... New Filters Added to the Request Index Page 2025-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/02/07/request-index// 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! The Request Index feature is part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request index in August 2024 introducing a new UI to list all the requests replacing the “Tasks” place in the menu. In December 2024,... Labeling projects across the OBS 2025-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2025/01/21/project-labels// 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. These updates are part of the Labels beta program. You can find more information about the beta program here. Our efforts to... Updates to the Request Index Page 2024-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/12/23/request-index// 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. The Request Index feature is part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request index in August 2024 introducing a new UI to... Unified Page to List Requests 2024-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/11/06/request-index-all-over-the-place// 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. The Request Index feature is part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request index in August 2024 introducing a new UI to list all the requests replacing the “Tasks” place in the menu. In... 3 Improvements For Collaboration on the Request Page 2024-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/10/23/make-it-easier-for-users-to-understand-what-is-there-on-a-request// 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. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. Then, in September 2022, we focused on the support of multi-action submit requests. We continued in October 2022 with improvements regarding the Build Results tab and superseded conversations, and we presented build... Improving Labels to Foster Collaboration 2024-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/09/25/improving-labels// 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. These updates are part of the Foster Collaboration and Labels beta programs. You can find more information about the beta program here. Our efforts to foster collaboration started in August 2024, when we... Improving notifications to stay informed about moderation reports 2024-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/08/28/content-moderation// 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. Content Moderation is part of the beta program. Our journey into content moderation began back in... Introducing Labels and Bug Report Links 2024-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 https://openbuildservice.org/2024/08/14/introduction-labels-and-foster-collab// 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. These updates are part of the Foster Collaboration and Labels beta programs. You can find more information about the beta program here. Introduction...