Re: duplicate comments in Bodhi

This is an interesting problem. We want to post comments from AutoQA into Bodhi. But some of our tests are designed in such a way that they test a particular package several (dozen) times. For example depcheck will test all packages in -updates-pending every time this tag is updated (new package is added/removed). If some package fails depcheck, we probably don't want to add 10 comments to its Bodhi page saying "depcheck failed" every single day. So we devised a solution where we won't post duplicate comments. If the first comment says "depcheck fails", we won't post any new comment until it says something else. But that has a catch - we also want to add a URL to the full results of the test. If we don't post duplicate comments, the maintainer will see just the original URL. But the reason of the failure might have changed. How do we tell the maintainer what's wrong when we don't post updated URL? One silly idea I've come up with is that we will post duplicate comments, but only once in a few days. For example we will post "depcheck failed (URL)" again only after at least two days from the previous "depcheck failed (URL)".

Ideas?