Bug 672225

Summary: Reserve system distro/method/tag mess
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Jaroslav Kortus <jkortus>
Component: web UIAssignee: Raymond Mancy <rmancy>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Version: 0.7CC: bpeck, dcallagh, dkovalsk, ebaak, mcsontos, mishin, rmancy, yanwang
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Description Jaroslav Kortus 2011-01-24 13:30:56 UTC
Description of problem:
the web ui (https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/reserveworkflow/) is very messy with a lot of confusing options.

For example, there is Distro Family with RHEL5 and RedHatEnterpriseLinux5, what's the difference? Also RedHatEnterpriseLinux0 is quite impressive release :).

Then we have really bunch of tags helping you decide what to install, for example "I CAN ADD ANY TAG I WANT" or "v" or "BLOODBATH". We can also see some potentially useful - like RHEL-4_8-Z-branch but these look empty.

And after guessing all these specialities we come to final decision what to install. The list is very long (for RedHatEnterpriseLinux5 / nfs/ RELEASED). This is one BIG mess!.


Expected results:
The web UI is user-friendly and brings joy and happiness to all people using it :). To achieve that, following should be met:

- Distro Family contains only meaningful entries, no two entries point to the same product.
- Method is the last one to choose (i.e. is product of distro/family/release choice, not vice versa)
- Tags are cleaned up. For special cases use special prefixes, like devel-SNAP4 instead of SNAP4. Non-prefixed should be only those generally understandable (RELEASED for example).
- Distro choice should have more user-friendly sorting. This means that stable released trees (or whatever is the most used one) is at the top (so the list begins with RHEL5-U5, rhel5-U4, rhel5-U3,...) and then all those daily builds (shouldn't they be tagged with something else than RELEASED??)

Comment 2 David Kovalsky 2012-10-15 12:16:55 UTC
What's the current status? Better, worse, same? 

Does this bug still need to be tracked as Hot (HotBeakerBugs)? Anything else Beaker crew can do?

Comment 3 Jaroslav Kortus 2012-10-15 12:22:18 UTC
it's better, just a few tags there like "I CAN ADD ANY TAG I WANT", is this really something that rel-eng did? ;)