[EPEL-devel] [EPEL] #26: EPEL should enforce erratum title length

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#26: EPEL should enforce erratum title length
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  Reporter:  stbenjam        |      Owner:  epel-wranglers
      Type:  defect          |     Status:  new
  Priority:  critical        |  Milestone:
 Component:  Policy problem  |    Version:
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:  errata
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Comment (by stbenjam):

 Bodhi's way of working is entirely targeted towards packages maintainers,
 *every* erratum title is just the package list with some additional info
 on the end (e.g. 'enhancement update').  I didn't realize that at first...

 Most are just one package though so it generally doesn't cause an issue
 and looks like the example you gave (NetworkManager bug fix update), but
 others have dozens and dozens of packages. When Bodhi generates the
 metadata as part of the repo mashing process, it's just dumping the title
 used there into the updateinfo.xml title tag.

 Is Pulp going to truncate the title now, or are you wanting this to get
 changed on the Fedora side?

 For Fedora to use descriptive short titles in Bodhi is going to be a big
 change, and a political one.  Although, Bodhi could truncate the package
 list in the XML during the mashing process probably without any ill
 effects (does anyone else consume the data?)...
   https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/bodhi.git/tree/bodhi/metadata.py#n251

 It would be nice if yum-security specified a schema so that we could
 definitively point to it and say <title> must be < 256 characters...

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