Infrastructure 2020/RelengAutomation

Release Engineering Automation

This is a working document that aims to identify and breakdown the work needed to automate most of Fedora Release engineering.

Release Engineering Tasks that would benefit from automation

• Adopting a package
• Unretiring a package
• Notification of orphaned packages to the devel mailing list + retirement after 6 weeks
• Notification of packages with broken deps prior to branching + retirement at branching
• Notification of packages that failed to build + retirement
• TBD

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Adopting a package

Currently when a packager wants to adopt a package that was previously orphan he needs to file a ticket for releng to process the requests (example : https://pagure.io/releng/issues?status=Closed&search_pattern=orphan)

The following need to be true for a package to be successfully adopted.

• the package is not retired
• the package is actually orphaned
• the person adopting the package is in the packager FAS group

When all these conditions are meet the following script can be use to give the package https://pagure.io/releng/blob/master/f/scripts/distgit/give-package.py

Automating checks

As a release engineer I want to automatically check if a package can be unorphaned.

Acceptance Criteria: 1 - Verify that the provided package is not a retired package, if retired an error message is displayed 2 - Verify that the provided package is owned by the orphan user, if not an error message is displayed 3 - When all conditions are met a success message is displayed

Automating processing

As a release engineer I want new tickets with "Unorphan <package_name>" title to automatically process the request.

Acceptance Criteria: 1 - Creating a new ticket on "https://pagure.io/releng/issues" with the title "Unorphan <package_name>" triggers the unorphaned checks. 2 - If all conditions are met, checks if the requester is a member of the packager FAS group. 3 - If the requester is a packager make him the package owner in src.fp.o 4 - When successful updates the original ticket with a comment and close the ticket. 5 - If the conditions are not met or the requester is not a packager, comment the original ticket with the failure reasons and close the ticket.