openSUSE Lizards » Adrian Schröter http://lizards.opensuse.org Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Build Service 1.0 Release Candidate is out http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/06/11/build-service-10-release-candidate-is-out/ http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/06/11/build-service-10-release-candidate-is-out/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:24:48 +0000 Adrian Schröter http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=59 We just released the Build Service 1.0 release candidate. The final release is expected in two weeks.

Most important about this release are the improvements in source handling. Submissions to foreign projects are possible now. That does mean that after two years of development, direct work on openSUSE distribution becomes possible, without bugzilla in between ! You see, we need sometimes a bit longer, but we keep our promises :)

The Build Service at http://build.opensuse.org is already running it, so it can be already used for submissions. You just need the current osc from openSUSE:Tools project.

When editing a package in openSUSE:Factory, you work usually on a branch of the maintainers project. In this way everybody can work close together with the official maintainers.

These mechanisms are usable via the osc command line client already. But the functionality is provided by the server, so I hope we can easily make the same functionality accessible in the other clients soon.

We have a wiki page describing the way how to use this.

There weill be still some rough edges in the functionality, but only practical usage will show them. A 1.1 release has been added to the roadmap, which can improve these use cases.

Please keep in mind that Factory is frozen atm to get 11.0 out of the door. So submissions will not get check in in the next week. But they can get already prepared :)

]]> http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/06/11/build-service-10-release-candidate-is-out/feed/ Easy OBS Web Client Development http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/05/07/easy-obs-web-client-development/ http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/05/07/easy-obs-web-client-development/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 09:57:11 +0000 Adrian Schröter http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=6 The web interface of the openSUSE Build Service behind http://build.opensuse.org is written with Ruby on Rails. The good thing about this is that you can easily setup an own instance of the web interface on your workstation using the server behind http://api.opensuse.org. All what you need is to checkout the sources, install the ruby on rails packages and run the server.

Installing the Ruby framework in matching release can be done as root user via:

# zypper sa http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Tools/YOUR_DISTRO openSUSE:Tools
# zypper install rubygem-rails-2_0

Getting the source code is easy just by anonymous checkout from svn:

# svn co https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice/

Running the web interface is really easy now just by running

# cd buildservice/src/webclient
# ruby script/server

This runs a local instance where you can connect with any web browser using http://0.0.0.0:3000/ URL. So there is no need to install a full build service, no database administration, just checkout and run it :) You can easily edit files esp. below the app/ directory and customize or improve the web interface for your needs.

Of course it is easy to get svn write access, if you provide a useful patch :)

Have fun.

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