MRE cards for pinot

[Lucas Kanashiro]

Hi Bryce,

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:59 AM Bryce Harrington <
bryce.harrington at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 04:28:15PM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> > > I've generated these with a default description that loosely follows
> the
> > > SRU template for convenience, but of course feel free to erase and redo
> > > all that.  Same with the title - I know each of us has some conventions
> > > in how we do our MREs, don't feel you have to change your conventions
> > > just change the bug title as you wish.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe it would be more work than just updating the bugs manually but
> would
> > it be possible to have a bug description template for each MRE? Where we
> > can fill the bug description appropriately for each package (set of
> > packages). For most MREs we have a template of those bug descriptions in
> > the exception itself, and we could use them to create the bug with the
> > "almost correct" content.
>
> Yes, in fact the script that generates the descriptions, 'pkg-updates',
> does support templates, however it's a bit mis-designed.
>
> Originally, we had different kinds of cards for OCI updates, Snap
> updates, a couple PPAs, and a small number of MREs.  So the script
> treats each of those as its own data archetype.  But now all those went
> away except for the backport PPA, and the number of MRE tasks has
> increased substantially.
>
> Anyway, the consequence is that there's just one template for MRE cards,
> but clearly MREs are going to more granularity... and an easier way to
> update the templates.  Currently they're just hardcoded in the script
> but I'm thinking it may make more sense to break those out as template
> files in the git repo.  I need to put a bit more thought into how this
> should evolve, though.  Lemme know if you have further ideas on what
> functionality you'd like to see.  Meanwhile, I'll stick it on the todo
> list for the n-series board prep work.


What you described seems to be what I am looking for, having templates for
each of them in the git repo seems enough. But feel free to explore other
options :)

Thanks!
Lucas Kanashiro.
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