Updates System

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed May 16 09:57:47 UTC 2007


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:37 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Thus I would like to voice my concern over the web-form part of this. 
>> Preferably this would be handled in the makefile and when typing "make build" 
>> for a non-devel branch my $EDITOR would get launched opening a pre-filled 
>> template update anouncement, where I can add the necessary bits, and then upon 
>> saving this gets automatically entered into the updates system.
>>
>> Basicly every step added to the process is one too much, thus we should try to 
>> not add any steps if not absolutely necessary. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 
>> against using a proper updates scheme instead of the rolling model of extras 
>> (although that always worked well for me). But the whole workflow should be 
>> made as smooth as possible, as smooth as baby's buttocks preferably.
> 
> Would a curses-style interface work for you?  It looks like it would be
> pretty easy to write a simple tui in python that first has you fill in
> the fields similar to the web form, pops open your editor on a temp file
> to enter/edit some freeform text, and then submits it to the update
> system using JSON-RPC.  Authenticating using the SSL certs might be a
> bit harder but we could use passwords until that is resolved.
> 

That would work, although I would like to see it fill as many of the fields 
(like package name, version etc) automaticly based on the info already at hand 
(like the spec file) when running from make build

Regards,

Hans




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