bodhi questions

[Luke Macken]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:52:27AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 1) Does the nvr input box work for anyone? It used to work long ago, but
> here no longer finds any builds. I had to cut'n'paste a build tag into it.

Yep, known issue[0].  We hit a regression with the AutoCompleteField
widget with TurboGears-1.0.4.4, which has since been fixed upstream.

> 2) Bug numbers: bodhi says it accepts CVE aliases. Hence I entered
> CVE-2007-6061 which is an alias for bug 393251. It didn't reject it,
> but later on no bug number appeared in my request. If I had known that,
> I would have entered the bug number and not the alias.
>
> Instead, and possibly 3), I got internal server error 500 for two
> consecutive update requests, although they made it into the system.

Yeah, sounds like bugs with regard to handling bug aliases[1].  This stuff
should be fixed in my git repo.

> 4) Security updates: it confuses me a lot that I can choose to push
> to stable, but the request is modified to push to "testing" instead.
> Apparently, because approval from the security team is needed.
> The request then reads "Requested: testing" without any indication
> that "stable" was requested.

I agree that this behavior is confusing, and will most likely change soon.

I'm hoping to have all of the above, and more[2], fixed and deployed by F9.

Thanks,

luke

[0]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/119
[1]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/172
[2]: https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=Fedora+9+Release