News about OBS

documentation

More Documented API Endpoints for Statistics, Status Project, Status Reports and Others

by the OBS Team posted on 12th Jun 2023

You have probably read about the release of the OpenAPI Documentation. That doesn’t mean the documentation is finished and static. On the contrary, we have recently introduced a few more endpoints and are looking forward to your contributions.

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releases

OpenAPI 3.0.0 Specification for the Open Build Service HTTP API

by the OBS Team posted on 6th Jun 2023

Starting today, the OpenAPI Specification presented through Swagger UI becomes the official API documentation for Open Build Service 🎉

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development

Request Page Redesign - Maintenance Action Types

by the OBS Team posted on 1st Jun 2023

After a while keeping working on the request page redesign, we are glad to come back to you with two new request types: maintenance incident requests and maintenance release requests.

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documentation

Newly Documented API Endpoints for Comments, Status Messages and Staging

by the OBS Team posted on 2nd May 2023

You hopefully have seen our new openAPI Documentation. You might have, since it’s now linked from the old documentation. Besides that change, we spent some of our development time on new documentation on Comments, Status Messages and Staging Workflows.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Lack of Emails/Notifications from April 6 to April 11, 2023

by the OBS Team posted on 12th Apr 2023

After implementing the feature that allows the users to comment on specific lines in the changes of a request, we also introduced the possibility to notify about them. However, there was a corner case which caused the notifications to fail, so our reference server did not send any web notifications or emails during the Easter holidays (from 6th to 11th April).

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development

Request Page Redesign - Two More Action Types and Better Comments on Changes

by the OBS Team posted on 4th Apr 2023

We are back to working on the request page redesign. This time we have focused on improving comments on lines in the Changes tab, enhancing the requests with multiple actions and supporting requests that intend to delete projects/packages and to change the development package of a package.

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documentation

Continuing on API Endpoint Documentation for Package and File Sources

by the OBS Team posted on 21st Mar 2023

You might have been already using our new openAPI Documentation. We now want to let you know we added some more documentation about package endpoints and we added the new section about file endpoints.

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development

Request Page Redesign - Diff Comments, Request Actions for Role Additions, and More

by the OBS Team posted on 7th Mar 2023

For some time now we have been working on the request page redesign. This time we have focused on adding comments on changed or removed lines in a diff, supporting add role requests, and enhancing the requests with multiple actions.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Downtime on February 23, 2023

by the OBS Team posted on 24th Feb 2023

Some maintenance operations plus a missing configuration rollback caused a 20 minutes certificate error on our reference server.

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development

Update on the SCM/CI Integration - Performance and Documentation Improvements

by the OBS Team posted on 20th Feb 2023

We took another step on the SCM/CI integration of the Open Build Service. This time we improved the rendering time of the workflow runs UI and enhanced the user documentation.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Failing email deliveries on 6th February, 2023

by Saray, Lukas posted on 6th Feb 2023

Our reference server stopped sending out email notifications on February 3th, 2023. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.

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development

Request Page Redesign - Facilitating the Review Process

by the OBS Team posted on 25th Jan 2023

Collaboration is the heart of the OBS project. Therefore, we have been working on the request page redesign for a while, the page where most of the collaboration happens. This time, we have focused on improving the handling of requests with multiple actions, facilitating the review process by enhancing the code changes and helping out with decision-making, among others.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Downtime on January 5, 2023

by the OBS Team posted on 5th Jan 2023

Some maintenance operations caused a long downtime on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.

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development

More Flexibility for Workflows in the OBS and SCM Integration

by the OBS Team posted on 20th Dec 2022

Right in time for the holiday season, we have prepared you a gift for the continuous integration between OBS and SCMs. We are introducing placeholder variables and for your workflows configuration files, a customizable location. Let’s see how this new flexibility helps you in your work.

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development

Notifications - Report of Build Failures for Web Notifications

by the OBS Team posted on 7th Dec 2022

You might already use the email channel to get notified about build failures on package builds. From now on you can also subscribe to receive those notifications through the web channel and review them directly in the Open Build Service.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Downtime on December 5, 2022

by the OBS Team posted on 6th Dec 2022

After yesterday’s deployment, we faced a downtime on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened.

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deployments

Post-mortem: Downtime on November 30, 2022

by the OBS Team posted on 1st Dec 2022

After yesterday’s deployment, we faced a downtime on our reference server. We want to share with you a detailed explanation of what happened.

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development

Request Page Redesign - Build Results with a Pinch of Salt

by the OBS Team posted on 28th Nov 2022

Once again, we worked on the request workflow. This time we have delivered a renovated interface to show the build results, ready to be consumed by the most demanding palates. Besides that, we have cooked up a couple of additions arranged on several tabs for the hungriest. Just keep reading, help yourself and enjoy.

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development

Request Page Redesign - Build results and superseded conversations

by the OBS Team posted on 24th Oct 2022

We don’t stop improving the requests workflow and we are actively working on the feedback. This time we worked on including conversations from superseded requests and presenting build results.

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documentation

More API Endpoint Documentation for Project and Package Sources

by the OBS Team posted on 10th Oct 2022

Remember our new openAPI Documentation? Of course you do!

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