Speed improvements in moving packages through bodhi
Hi there
Apologies if this is not the right place to post. If not, forwarding to the appropriate
people would be useful.
As a Fedora end user, this is a suggestion about how package processing through bodhi
could be improved.
The time taken for a package to enter the testing or stable repos is sometimes days after
it has been submitted to that repo. Presumably signing is part of that delay. It would be
worthwhile to consider if this part of the bodhi process could be made faster, or capped
in time by general policy. This would be primarily and more importantly done for security
updates.
Delays in packages entering repos after submission mean that feedback is missing on
testing done by those who wait for the convenience and signing security of having the
package being available in the testing repo. And it allows important updates to get into
stable more rapidly, slicing off hours or days in the process. For security updates, this
is only likely to be more important in the future.
As an explanation....
When bodhi says:
"This update has been submitted for testing by XXX."
then the following bodhi message must appear within 1 hour:
"This update has been pushed to testing."
Naturally a package must then wait for appropriate feedback and karma.........
But then, when bodhi says:
"This update has been submitted for stable by bodhi."
then the following bodhi message must appear within 1 hour:
"This update has been pushed to stable."
It may be that 1 hour is not currently feasible. If not, would 2, 6 or 12 hours be
reasonable??
Ofcourse this only applies when the general process is running smoothly, not when servers
and software are misbehaving.
Regards
Stewart