March 2020

Week 10 (March 2nd - March 6th) #

The generate command is now deprecated in favour of the init command (#728), contributed by @shreyaspapi.

When a non-collaborator creates a PR, packit says that only “Collaborators can trigger packit-service” - this message has been improved to better match the reality (#445).
Packit service no longer posts comments on pull requests when a SRPM can’t be created - the logs should be now aviable in the service’s logs view available when clocking on the commit status check URL (#447).
Commands to control packit service can now be embedded in a comment (previously, the whole comment was treated as a command) - hence you can now create a comment to give an update and also trigger packit (#433), contributed by @IceWreck.
We have improved monitoring of packit-service by using more sentry.io’s features (#458).
You can now disable the functionality when packit service comments on a PR when it gets built for the first time (notifications: {pull_request: {successful_build:: false}} in your packit.yaml), hi Lars! (#455).

We have changed how packit treats version and release in the spec file (#748).
- We handle the git-describe output better which should help when tags contain dashes (#759).
When packit adds source-git patches into a spec file it adds them outside of rpm macros now (#760).
In pull request pipelines we run the packit-service tests so that we are sure we do not break the service (#752).

Comments from packit-service about successful propose-update in the issue which triggered the update now include the URL of the new pull-request in Fedora (#472).
We have done some major refactoring how jobs are processed (#476), (#746), (#453).
Development and debugging of the packit-service should be easier now, we documented how to run packit-service locally (#473).

When you are executing copr-build command, you do not need to set the project name if this value is defined in the copr_build job in the configuration file (#763).
All patches generated from a source-git repo are now prefixed with a number so they are easy to sort (#765).
We improved the behaviour when loading the authentication in the config file - users are warned only if deprecated keys are used, no more confusing messages when you do not have authentication key in the configuration (#754).

We periodically check the status of the copr-build so that we do not need to rely on the Fedora message bus. This should avoid failures in build status reporting (#490).
Propose-update triggered by comment in Github now recognizes also pre-releases (#498).
Several bugs in how we report results from Testing farm have been fixed and Testing farm results should now appear correctly in commit status checks (#496), (#505), (#510), (#513).

New Packit version 0.9.0 was released.
Packit Service now mostly uses PostgreSQL instead of Redis as a backend, which will result in more responsive API and Dashboard.