Dear Staging Managers,

After taking over maintainership for the Staging Dashboard engine from you,  we have been working on a new implementation
of the Staging Workflow in order to make it easier to use, easier to adopt for other distribution maintainers and easier to maintain
for us.

Another benefit of pulling this into the OBS and make an 'official' feature out of it, is that we can replace some of the functionality
that you have introduced with workarounds (such as descriptions/comments to pass around data) by standard OBS/Ruby on Rails 
objects. We think that some of the more serious problems you have right now with notifications or tracking the history will be easier
to solve for us for you.

So this is the first release of the new Staging Workflow and we are looking forward to get your feedback to ensure that we are on the right way.
Please be aware that this is a minimal viable product and far from finished. We wanted to involve you in this early stage so we
get the opportunity to learn from you if we move into the right direction. We still have features to develop and details to improve,
and for that we need your guidance. As experienced users of the Staging process, your feedback is very useful for us.

We have written down a little bit what we did so far for you: https://gist.github.com/saraycp/ddda1cc4b622149926287b0cadede46b

Rest assured we are working on making this a complete OBS feature. Please test as much as you can now and
do not hesitate to contact our product owner Henne (hvogel@suse.de), file issues on github or  talk to any of us
(mail: bs-team@suse.de, irc: chat.freenode.net/#opensuse-buildservice) if you have any question or suggestion.

We are very much looking forward to your feedback!

Regards,
The OBS Team

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