Blaming my previous post on a lack of coffee shrinking this thread a bit <snip> .... </snip>
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: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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