On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:36:09AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 01:40 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Is there an executive summary as to what's backwards incompatible and
> what the impact on the average user is? A quick look at the kanban
> doesn't give me any understanding :)
Each of the issues on the kanban board is a proposal to make a
backwards incompatible change. I have not written any summary other
than to gather those together in a kanban. Many of them are removing
code that I don't believe is used (but that will have an effect on the
REST API, or will require admin intervention to upgrade).
Bodhi has many types of users, from release engineers, to admins, to
packagers, to integrators, to testers.
Here are some of the proposals I'd draw the most attention to:
* Drop the update title (a list of NVRs that is very buggy) as the
Update's primary key, and instead use the update alias (the string
that looks like FEDORA-2018-abcde) as the only identifier[0].
+1. For big updates the title is completely useless (e.g. kde updates
with 100+ packages).
* Drop Python 2 support in the client[1] (we will need some
dependencies to move to Python 3 to bring this to Rawhide.)
+1, by the time bodhi 4 is out, a large part of the python2 stack will
be gone.
* Switch to OpenID Connect[2], which will require backwards
incompatible changes in the authentication API and possibly in the
Python bindings to the REST API[2].
Sounds good.
* Drop anonymous comments[3] - you can't ask follow up questions
because anonymous users don't get e-mails. It's not a very useful
feature.
+1. In my experience those happen much more often because people forget
to log in than because they actually want to post anonymously.
* Change how the edit APIs work so that a diff is sent rather than
the
entire set of fields[4].
* Remove critpath karma[5].
+1. I know it has some uses, adamw recently pointed some out, but I
don't think the balance is strongly on the side of not needing that field.
Zbyszek
