On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:00:43 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:

Le mardi 07 octobre 2008, à 18:31 +0200, Pascal Bleser a écrit :

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Leo Eraly wrote:

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At lot of this functionality is maybe already in OBS or could be added to OBS.

IMHO it would be even easier to just discuss a bit about the model (think "database tables and fields", if you prefer), a few features, and whip it up with Grails -- scaffolding should be sufficient given it would be very simplistic.. Grails generates the model, the CRUD controllers and views and... add a plugin for authentication, that's it.

A simple CRUD web application with authentication for 2 or 3 tables is done in a few hours. And off the top of my head, a single table would even be enough, with metadata about the package requests (website, description, license), a status field (request, taken, done), and that's pretty much about it. OK, add a "packagers" table with contact information about the packagers who may pick requests from the queue. That's.. dunno.. an evening or two.

I suggest to discuss these needs, and the proposal on the opensuse-buildservice list and make it part of the new obs web client. (I'm Cc'ing that list)

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The pain, as usual, would be to authenticate against iChain, as it isn't open, can only be done from something hosted at Novell, etc...

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If we would like to make more people contribute to contrib something like that could be helpful.

Absolutely. We need better, more specific tooling, and for that we need more software developers. And we need to get rid of iChain or have an alternative gateway to it (e.g. OpenID or whatever).

Here's something I did for the GNOME Team: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/OscGnome

It's a system built on top of the OBS and some dirty web pages (like http://tmp.vuntz.net/opensuse-packages/obs.py) to know what's the current status of packages maintained by the team, and to work all together more effectively -- there's a small reservation system, eg. Also, the osc plugin makes life much easier.

Wow, this is quite impressive!

I don't have time to elaborate on this right now (I'm at hackfest), but this is something I've been willing to generalize to the complete distribution if possible. Which means pushing some features to osc/obs later on.

I'll send a mail to opensuse-buildservice about all this when I'll be back home, but you should still feel free to send questions ;-)

Vincent

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