Re: PSA: please stop manually titling Bodhi updates

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:33:04AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey folks!
> 
> Since the new Bodhi UI rolled out recently I've noticed a big uptick in
> updates where the update creator manually set the update title.
> 
> This is a problem because in every single case so far, the manually-
> created title is worse than an auto-generated title would have been.
> 
> If you just leave that box blank, Bodhi will set the update title to be
> the NVR(s) of the package(s) in the update, just like it always has.
> But the new UI seems to really encourage people to override this and
> write a title manually...and people are picking titles that are worse.
> e.g. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-edc1551b22
> where the auto-generated title would have been "container-selinux-2.123.0-1.fc31" but the update author manually set it to "container-selinux", which is clearly much less useful.

I think the web site UI can change the title to the component name like 
that when you edit an existing update.  It did it to me a couple of 
times, I thought I was doing something wrong but maybe it's just a bug.

Regards, Joe
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