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Today I wanted to review a package, but lots of review requests I searched, that are not already assigned to somebody are still in an unfinished state. There are already some issues raised that the submitter did not yet address.

There is a way to mark these review requests: Add NotReady to the status whiteboard of the review request. By adding this, interested maintainers can easily filter out review requests, that do not yet need their attention. The cached review requests already filters these review requests out. Once the issues are addressed, the submitter can just remove the entry from the status whiteboard.

So please use the NotReady entry in the future if you found some blocking issues in a review request, to make it easier to find bug reports that need attention by a reviewer.

Whenever I do somethong new on Fedora, it is normally time to report some bugs and one import part of the bug report is to include the name-version-release string of the affected rpm package. To get this string easily, I created an alias for it:

alias nvr='/bin/rpm --qf '\''%{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n'\'' -q'

When I handle new bug reports, then I often need to request this information, because I handle several bug reports for components in Red Hat Bugzilla, where most reported bugs are there because of a bug iin some other package. E.g. people report bugs against radeontool, but it’s a bug of the radeon driver, which is included in xorg-x11-drv-ati. Therefore it would be nice if people would have this useful alias or shell script installed on their system, e.g. as rpm-nvr. Maybe I should create a package like rpm-query-scripts that also provide some other useful queries, e.g. for package reviews.