[Mageia-dev] Association between SRPMs and bug reports in Mageia App Db

Wed Aug 29 23:35:30 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+In Mageia App Db [1], there was a page that listed all packages from 
+updates_testing media, named "Update candidates" in the menu.
+
+This page now gives for each package the link to its bug report in bugzilla, 
+if it can find one. 
+
+Example: update candidates for Mageia 2, source packages:
+http://mageia.madb.org/rpm/list/listtype/updates_testing/application/0/source/1
+
+When a bug report has been found to match the update candidate, an additional 
+piece of information is added right to it:
+- QA = exact SRPM name match (anywhere in the bug report), bug assigned to QA
+- QA in CC = exact SRPM name match, QA is in CC of the bug (probably waiting 
+for the packager to do something)
+- no QA = exact SRPM match, but QA was not involved (yet?)
+- partial match, QA = partial SRPM name match with the bug report's RPM field, 
+bug assigned to QA
+- partial match, QA in CC = partial SRPM name match with the bug report's RPM 
+field, bug assigned to QA.
+
+RPMs and bug reports are not matched in real time (too much time consuming), 
+but most new links should appear rather quickly though.
+
+It can happen that it takes up to 24 hours for an update candidate to appear 
+in the list, due to Sophie [2] (which Mageia App Db queries) having some 
+difficulties to detect that a new package was added in updates_testing and 
+updates media (it looks like their addition doesn't trigger the right event, 
+so we have to wait for sophie to perform its full scan to see them in the 
+list, which happens once a day IIRC). Olivier Thauvin can probably correct me 
+if I'm wrong.
+
+[1] http://mageia.madb.org
+[2] http://sophie.zarb.org
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+