Meeting with the OBS Community @ oSC19

Notes from the meeting with the OBS Community at the openSUSE Conference 2019:

• Integrate https://release-monitoring.org/ to make maintaining lots of packages easier
  • Notifications for outdated packages
  • Suggestion: Integrate better with https://software.opensuse.org/
• Diff generation slow
  • Issue with truncated diffs
  • Proposal: Don't load tarball diff by default. Provide a button for fetching it asynchronously.
• Bootstrap UI has too much whitespace (https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/7033)
• Requests: focus on review request, not accept.
• Dedicated review page with next/previous review button and keyboard shortcut (review mode equivalent to osc interactive review)
• Elements, like icons, hard to distinguish for buildresults
  • Proposal: Add more color on buildresult color
• Read only API access (adrian: most likly public read only api access? Needs a way first to avoid killing us with expensive requests)
• Allow installation of different themes (per instance) without patching the code
• Allow switching of themes (at user level)
• Bootstrap navigation: no subproject links (https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/6532)
• API which only gives published packages for software.o.o (adrian: this is already the case. wild guess, you may have trouble with a broken index?)
• Problems with OBS instances (stable release). Bugs are not backported.
  • Solution: Regular releases
  • Solution: Better tracking of important bug fixes that are relevant for stable releases.