Open Build Service2025-11-26T17:26:05+00:00https://openbuildservice.orgOBS TeamCopyright (c) 2012 OBS TeamLabels and Assignment Improvements2025-11-19T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/11/19/labels_and_assigments//On our latest development iteration we have introduced new filtering capabilities using labels and we have polished the Submit Request workflow when there are assigners involved. These improvements make managing and tracking your work more efficient and organized. These updates are part of the Labels and 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...Less Noise, More Focus: Enhancements to the Request Page2025-11-06T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/11/06/request-workflow-improvements//We’re back with major progress on the Open Build Service (OBS) Request Page redesign, and we’re excited to share the latest round of improvements! This iteration focuses sharply on information priority and efficiency. This is the next step in making the request browsing experience faster, clearer, and less overwhelming for everyone. Here’s what’s new in this iteration, starting with our most powerful addition: Introducing Important Build Targets Reviewing build results for every repository and architecture...Severe Service Degradation: OBS Unreliable/Unavailable2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/11/05/post-mortem//There was a service degradation of our reference server. The response time of the build.o.o frontend started to increase at 13:35 UTC and reached critical levels around 13:55 UTC (reaching levels of 4 seconds and more on average). At 14:05 UTC we started to reach the maximum amount of passenger instances (150), and therefore couldn’t spawn new one’s. This led to the situation that new incoming requests couldn’t be answered and were dropped. This state...Relevant Upstream Package Version Information2025-10-23T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/10/23/foster-collaboration//Our recent contribution to the package versions tracking includes displaying accurate information about the upstream version and providing the link to the release monitoring within easy reach. 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 improved labels to foster collaboration, allowed labeling projects and...Severe Service Degradation: OBS Unreliable/Unavailable2025-10-23T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/10/23/post-mortem//There was a service degradation of our reference server. On Wednesday, October 15 from 05:00 in the morning, the response time of OBS was slow for anyone trying to use the server and in many cases connections were even dropped completely. Additionally at 14:10 UTC, the service went offline for a period of 84 minutes. build.opensuse.org was back to normal operation at 15:37 UTC, so users were impacted by this during roughly 10.5 hours. We...Request Workflow: Accept & Forward by Default and Clearer History2025-10-10T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/10/10/request-workflow-improvements//Introduction Alright! Here we go again! This time with some small improvements to the request workflow: “Accept and Forward” is now the default action for requests that can be forwarded, and we have removed the confusing colors from the icons in the Comments & History timeline when adding a review. 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...Introducing Release Monitoring in OBS2025-09-23T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/09/23/foster-collaboration//Over the last few days, we’ve been focused on bringing release monitoring to OBS to help you keep track of the local and upstream releases. 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 improved labels to foster collaboration, allowed labeling projects and introduced the...A Better Way to Discuss Code: Diff Comments2025-09-18T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/09/18/explaining-diff-comments//By now, many OBS users have noticed that the Changes tab has its own place, and for good reason. The new layout separates code diffs, build results, and conversations into focused tabs. In the old interface, if you wanted to discuss proposed changes in the diff, you had to switch back and forth between the diff and the comment section. With the new Changes tab, discussions about specific changes can stay right where they belong,...The New Request Workflow in Detail2025-09-16T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/09/16/details_new_request-workflow//After a couple of months of beta testing, the new request workflow user interface is enabled for everyone now. Let’s take a closer look at the key improvements and the reasons we have introduced them. Working together on software in an OBS request involves a lot of information. A conversation between people/tools about the changes proposed, the changes to the sources (the patch!) and, as OBS is about building binary packages from sources, the builds...The New Request Workflow is Going Live!2025-09-05T00:00:00+00:00https://openbuildservice.org/2025/09/05/rollout-is-coming//Starting Thursday, September 11th, we will begin rolling out the new request workflow. We believe, the redesign we’ve been working on for a long time together with you, is now mature enough to go live. So some of you will begin to see the new user interface from that moment on. We appreciate your patience as we all get used to the new workflow. Phased Rollout A phased rollout means we will not enable the...Request Workflow Redesign: RPM Lint Results Filtering2025-08-26T00:00:00+00:00https://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 Improvements2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00https://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 Notifications2025-07-30T00:00:00+00:00https://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 Labels2025-07-16T00:00:00+00:00https://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 Report2025-06-25T00:00:00+00:00https://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 Requests2025-06-04T00:00:00+00:00https://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+00:00https://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 Assignments2025-05-15T00:00:00+00:00https://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 improved labels to foster collaboration, allowed labeling projects and introduced the functionality of managing...Labeling outside of OBS with an API2025-05-05T00:00:00+00:00https://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 improved labels to foster collaboration, allowed labeling projects and introduced the functionality of...UI/UX Improvements For the Redesigned Request Page2025-04-02T00:00:00+00:00https://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...