From showing what happened, to showing what matters.

It’s time again to talk about the notifications. On our journey to a full-fledged notification system, we put our emphasis on the content of the notifications and kept improving several UI parts to increase productivity and user experience.

Improving Project and Package Pages User Experience and Polishing Announcements Workflow

One of the goals we pursue currently is to make you more productive on the go, while away from the computer. So we have spent some time to make it easier for you to change projects and packages in all screen sizes in the OBS user interface.

Post-Mortem: Severe Service Degradation on May 18, 2020

The https://build.opensuse.org OBS instance was unavailable for eleven minutes, outside of our maintenance window. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Where are my Package Actions?

Are you member of our beta program and can’t find your package actions?

Notifications Round Two!

Previously we started to introduce a new notification area in the Open Build Service web interface. The goal of this is to enable the users to stay on one medium to get the work done. There is no need to continuously switch between the browser and email-clients to see where some actions are needed.

Post-Mortem: Severe Service Degradation on April 8, 2020

After today’s deployment, our reference server suffered from a severe service degradation. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

OBS goes Ruby On Rails 6!

In the recent past, there have been quite some attempts, by different contributors, to migrate the OBS API to Ruby on Rails version 6, which came out August last year. Lately, this got revisited by Lukas Krause as part of the SUSE Hack Week.

Fresh Notifications and much more

One more time we direct our effort to responsiveness, there is a lot to do in this regard and we are proud of our achivements during the last weeks. We heard your feedback and improved the navigation and we have a couple of new things to notify you about… go on reading.

Who Said OBS Was Not Responsive?

If you believe so, we’re hopefully going to change your opinion next time you surf OBS within our beta program. In the last two weeks, we kept working in improving responsiveness following a mobile-first approach. Lots of issues were fixed and a bunch of changes were made.

More Responsive Than Ever Before!

Do you like checking the status of your OBS account on the way to work? While sitting on the sofa? On a flight?

Look Back at 2019

The year is coming to an end and we have stopped for a while to look back. Wow! Time flies and we have lived a lot of experiences and achieved so many goals.

New Local Build Environment Features

Bye Bye Bento, Hello Bootstrap!

This is probably the last post related to revamping our user interface (UI).

Addressing Typography Issues Part 2

In the last couple of weeks we continued tackling the typography issues in the new UI.

Addressing Typography Issues in the new User Interface

We tackled typography issues after receiving feedback from multiple users.

Release of the Open Build Service, Version 2.10

After more than one year of development we are happy to announce the release of Open Build Service 2.10!

This new version of OBS brings a revamped web user interface, improved support for shipping your software in containers and integrating your package builds with source code management systems like GitLab and Pagure.

Beta of Version 2.10 Released

We have released the beta of the upcoming Open Build Service (OBS) version 2.10.

Post-mortem: Downtime on June 13, 2019

After today’s deployment, we faced a downtime of our reference server for users in our beta program. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Closing in on the Completion of the User Interface Migration: Cloud and Monitor Pages

The Search and Kiwi Editor Pages Are Now Part of the Revamped User Interface