Bodhi documentation for new packages

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat May 17 21:38:37 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 02:33:54 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 02:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>>> In fact bodhi already automatically closes the review ticket when the
>>>>>> package arrives in at least one of the stable repositories.
>>>>> Right, but only when the review bug number is added to the update.
>>>> Why isn't this automatic?
>>> Because Bodhi doesn't have ESP?  Without the update submitter telling
>>> bodhi that this is a new package that has a review bug to close how is
>>> bodhi supposed to guess this, let alone guess what the review bug is, or
>>> that this particular update should close the review bug?
>> Bodhi knows when it's a new package since package maintainers provide 
>> this information. pkgdb already knows a lot of information that can used 
>> too. Package review requests follow a standardized format. It should be 
>> possible to query bugzilla to get the bugzilla report number. It can do 
>> this when the package hits the non-rawhide branches if it hasn't been 
>> manually closed by the package submitter already.
> 
> It would be an unimportant implementation detail. Better spend time on
> fixing the many bodhi bugs, such as lack of sorting (of comments, of
> updates, of pkg evrs).

Sure, it is not a either or thing however. Prioritizing other bugs or 
enhancements if fine by me. If you do want to implement it, I am just 
providing some ideas that does not involve "ESP".

Rahul




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