Last modified: 2013-08-26 15:16:28 UTC
Backporting package can be long and tedious, we could get it script in a parameterized job that would ask the user few parameters such as: - source repository - destination repository - package name Then from there invoke backportpackage https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Backport_packages to craft the package and pbuilder https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Pbuilder to actually build it.
This would be a postmerge job? I'm not sure how this is related to CI / Jenkins. Where does it take user input from?
That would be an independent job unrelated to Zuul / Gerrit. User would get to the job dashboard in Jenkins, press the build link and then would get asked for parameters. They will then be used to created a package and publish it somewhere for user to download/test.
Maybe one day, for now it is much better done manually using https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backport_packages
