Bug 1537609 - Incomprehensible help text
Summary: Incomprehensible help text
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: waiverdb
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: matt jia
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-23 15:39 UTC by Mattias Ellert
Modified: 2018-11-30 23:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 23:43:29 UTC
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Description Mattias Ellert 2018-01-23 15:39:16 UTC
Description of problem:

The help text is not sufficient to understand how the tool works, at least for me. The text reads:

$ waiverdb-cli -h
Usage: waiverdb-cli [OPTIONS]

  Creates new waivers against test results.

  Examples:

      waiverdb-cli -r 123 -r 456 -p "fedora-26" -c "It's dead!"

Options:
  -C, --config-file PATH      Specify a config file to use
  -r, --result-id INTEGER     Specify one or more results to be waived
  -p, --product-version TEXT  Specify one of PDC's product version
                              identifiers.
  --waived / --no-waived      Whether or not the result is waived
  -c, --comment TEXT          A comment explaining why the result is waived
  -h, --help                  Show this message and exit.

If I look at an update in bodhi, how do I match the information provided about a failed test to what parameters to use for this command?

From the example in the help text, the -p "fedora-26" part kind of gives a hint that if the failing test was for an update for Fedora 26, I should use -p "fedora-26", and similar for other Fedora releases. This gives only the -r option to identify for which test you want to register a waiver. But the bodhi page only shows a list of results, there is no "result id" mentioned there.

The help text is not helpful. Can you provide some more information about how to use the tool? How do I find out from the information in bodhi what parameters to use?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

waiverdb-cli-0.4.0-1.fc27.noarch

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "waiverdb-cli -h"
2. Be confused

Comment 1 Ralph Bean 2018-01-23 18:36:48 UTC
Agreed, it's not obvious.

I added some instructions over here:  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO#Handling_feedback_from_automated_tests

I'm hoping we can get this merged soon, which will be a much nicer experience:  https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/2095

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 13:35:40 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 27 is nearing its end of life.
On 2018-Nov-30  Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 27. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2018-11-30 23:43:29 UTC
Fedora 27 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-11-30. Fedora 27 is
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