bodhi/updates system status

[Luke Macken]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:55:31PM -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I made a blog post[0] recently about bodhi[1], which is the name of the new
> > updates system for Fedora.  I layed out a bunch of milestones[2] for the
> > project, 1.0 being the minimal functionality needed for Fedora 7.
> 
> Very nice project.
> 
> > If anyone is interested in helping out, feel free to grab any ticket;
> > and if you have questions or don't know where to begin, don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> One question: Will there be a command line only way to push updates?
> E.g something that takes type/bugs/cves/notes as arguments and/or
> separate files?

That's the plan.  I opened a task[0] for the 1.1 milestone to write an XML-RPC
interface for interfacing with the system.  From here, throwing together
some command line tools will be trivial.

> Perhaps even a template file could reside in each folder waiting to be
> filled out and make build refusing otherwise to build the package?

That's a possibility;  iirc, Brew has some way of keeping track of bugs
and such (via Makefile target parameters), but I'm not sure how it deals with
them (or how we would be able to deal with them).  Until we get our hands on
the code, hacking up the Makefile to prompt the developer for this data (or using
some template, as you suggested) would be a fairly simple way of doing it.

luke

[0]: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi/ticket/5