On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 10:08 AM Ken Dreyer ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:14 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Okay, this is making me _very_ sure that we should automate these:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10441
That's because even though a human is spending time running the script, there does not seem to be any opportunity for human intervention... this happened: https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/39869
We give users a web form (Pagure) that invites human input, and then an automatic-but-human-sounding-response that gives the same response over and over, or eternal silence. There's no indication in the comment that this is not a human, or a clear link to the source code to improve anything about the situation.
See my comment in https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/19865 . I hit a despairing moment like you did. Interesting that you're able to re-open your ticket, because I don't think my account has permission to do that in this Pagure project.
Imagine if this was as easy as GitHub or GitLab, where I just click a button to create a new repo, or I run "git push" to create a new branch.
I miss the clarity and simplicity of Pkgdb.
I've mentored a new Fedora contributor through this process a while ago, and this scm-admin part was the point at which they gave up.
I hate the scm-admin part. I hope we fix it... :(