[Fwd: Re: Bringing smolt to the next level..]

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Blaming my previous post on a lack of coffee shrinking this thread a bit

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> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
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>> We had a openchrome developer ping for testing on -test list today which
>> reminded me I was going to
>> send you ideas about bringing smolt to the next level..
>>
>> To be able to bring smolt to the next level we need to keep our own
>> smolt server ( Fedora hosted ) and tie it to the FAS account where
>>
>> A)
>>         Testers/QA can check/uncheck their hardware for testing
>>
>> B)
>>         Developer can search for a specific hardware that is marked for
>> testing
>>         and communicate with the owners of that hardware to perform specific
>> test etc..
>>
>> So what needs to be done to accomplish this.
>>
>> First smoltSendProfile needs to be able to point do a different server than
>> smolst.org and authenticate against FAS
>> It already can ( smoltSendProfile -s --username= --password= ) so path to
>> server is clear..
>>
>> A back end needs to be set up which can host multiple smolt profiles on the
>> same fas uid ( sql fas uid )
>>
>> From a tester perspective I would want to be able to manage my smolt profiles
>> through smolt-gui and through
>> my fas account.
>>
>> There I would like to be able to get a list of all my smolt profiles..
>> Enable/disable testing individually on each of them
>> Delete each of them
>> Enable/Disable receive email notification from maintainer/developer
>> ( This would just be tied to the @fedoraproject email address )
>>
>> This here is an extreme extra..
>> Receive info on what to test  ( Test Case info pulled from qa namespace on the
>> wiki  this is not yet implemented )
>> Receive info on how to test ( Again pull info from the qa namespace on the
>> wiki  this is not yet implemented )
>> Recieve info on how to report ( qa namespace once more and not yet implemented
>> )
>> Post the result of my testing ( vote/comment ) to bodhi or some other place..
>>
>> As a maintainer/developer ( guessing here ; ) have absolutely no need for the
>> smolt-gui nor the web interface in my fas account
>> but would be like to be able to search for specific hw owners, send them
>> notification.
>>
>> This can be stock response which is with filled in entry from the criteria of
>> the performed search.
>>
>> For example..
>>
>> An update has been built in koji that addresses several issues for user that
>> have ati r300 ( r300 being what was search for )
>> you are mark as a owner of such glorious hardware bla bla bla
>> Please perform the following test ( link to test case on qa namespace )
>> Followed by your  reciving this mail because you registerd yourself as a
>> tester something something..
>>
>> This of course would also be sent to the -test-list to reach tester that might
>> have not yet sent their smolt profile and marked it up for testing..
>>
>> Better to get input from a developer that actually needs this info on what and
>> how he would like to work with the smoltprofiles...
>>
>>     
>
> I actually don't see any need to tie this directly to FAS, why not just
> tie it to an email address?  If I submit with my email, I'll get an email
> with a link to verify that it is my address and profile.  This would also
> allow us to find people who don't run Fedora should the need come up.
>
> The rest of it is pretty doable but we'd need people to do it.  I get the
> occasional changes into smolt but time constraints keep me from working on
> it very often, I've got a good 6 months of backlog for infrastructure
> stuff.
>
> Having said that though, its not that complicated to work on smolt.  The
> hardest part is ensuring we're using the database correctly (not doing so
> causes queries to take way to long)
>
> Also, one of the items on our todo list is a more feature rich API.
> That'd let us use the main smolt instance but not clutter the smolts.org
> space up with fedora specific stuff.
>
> Maybe a google summer of code project?
>
> 	-Mike

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