buildsys queue

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:27:21 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 20:10 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:05:52PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > the queue seems to be 2+ days large, is that due to some hardware
> > > issues mentioned some time ago? If not, could someone please sign/push
> > > the packages? Thanks!
> > 
> > Forget it, I just saw that some packages have been pushed, I just
> > misinterpreted the status on
> > http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/success.psp, I thought
> > that if the packages are tagged as "needsign" then they still need to
> > be signed and pushed to the repo.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to add a state of "signedandpushed" or similar?
> 
> That state exists, but nobody bothers to move then from 'needsign' to
> 'finished'.  Technically the push scripts could do this, but they don't.

What is needed to get it done?

The push script does not interface with plague in any way yet, so it does
not know anything about build job numbers. It could reconstruct the build
job tag from the name/version directory entries in the needsign repo. Is
that worth anything?

A quick grep on the plague server code returns:

     # Marking 'needsign' jobs as finished requires admin privs

Sounds like a first roadblock. What kind of "admin privs" would we need?