by the OBS Team posted on 2nd Aug 2018

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-07-15 to 2018-07-26).

Release of OBS 2.9.4

There were two ugly security bugs in our official OBS release. We’ve fixed them now with the help of Markus Hüwe and released a patched version last week. If you host your own OBS instance, please checkout the most recent OBS version and install it now.

Enable Search by Title and/or Description

Fixing the definition of indexes in PR #5385 makes it possible to search by package’s title and/or description. Give it a try on the search page, click on Advanced and search by that software you always wanted to have.

Increase Test Coverage of Webui::ObsFactory Models & Controllers

You may remember that last sprint the factory dashboard integration was finished. It used to be an external plugin used by the openSUSE Factory maintainers and it is now integrated in OBS.

But this was just the first step. This sprint we continued increasing the test coverage of the new OBS code and started refactoring the existing code. As you can see on Codecov, the coverage of OBS factory models and controllers is now above 90%.

Bundle Gems Service

You may have already read in the last sprint report that we wanted to start using the recently implemented bundle_gems service. Being able to do this gave us quite a lot of work as you can see in the pull request. One of the biggest part of the work came from @coolo’s idea of building an independant package which contains the gems, which is used in OBS building, to remove the bundle_gem part from the OBS spec. This elegant solution implied, for instance, that we needed to ensure that rake installed and Gemfile versions are the same. But finally the code is deployed and OBS is already built using the bundle_gems service, as you can see in build.opensuse.org.

Frontend Migration

Finally, we started working on updating our frontend technology. We choose Bootstrap 4 and we started using @hellcp’s pull request as base. This pull request was superseeded by an smaller one and you can already see how wonderful it looks like:

But this is only the beginning , as we continue improving the initial code. There were already some esthetic changes and we are already working in the package#revisions page.

Special thanks to @hellcp

Emojis Support

Thanks to @coolo’s help, we now support emojis in comments! This was a tricky pull request which required to modify old migrations to hardcode the old encoding.