openSUSE Tumbleweed Snapshot Announcer

Table of Contents

• scripts
  • factory-package-news.py
  • factory-package-news-web.py
  • announcer.py
• current deployment on opensuse.org

This set of scripts is used to generate the tumbleweed snapshot announcement mails.

scripts

factory-package-news.py

The main tool

• extract changelog information from rpm packages contained in iso images (command save). The information is stored as pickle file in the specified directory.

• create diff between previously saved pickle files (command diff)

factory-package-news-web.py

Simple web service to generate diffs between specified snapshots and to set the last announced snapshot version.

announcer.py

sends a mail with the current changelog if the the snapshot published on download.opensuse.org is newer than the last announced one

current deployment on opensuse.org

openqa.opensuse.org syncs factory isos in a cron job and generates pickle files to store changelog information in /var/lib/openqa/factory/snapshot-changes/

the obs factory publisher script fetches the diff for the to be published snapshot from openqa.opensuse.org via http. Then sets the current version to the snapshot number via post request.

the factory announcer script runs on the packagelists vm, polling the changelog file that was created by the publish script.