[openqa-mon] starting program without any option should give useful information

[ilmanzo]

When I start the program without any command line option I get a screen like this

what are those tests and where they came from ? It may be a confusing UX since nobody asked to monitor those jobs.

a couple proposal for possibile more useful when user enters an empty command line:

• show the jobs from last time (this means we need to persist the previous query in some way)
• show help page and highlight the mandatory command line parameters

WDYT ?

[Martchus]

What weird response is that. That really sounds like someone completely unrelated to this project is trying to spread malware. If you agree, we should report/block the user and delete the comment.

The actual question I cannot answer but I also have no real opinion on what should happen on a call without arguments.

[ilmanzo]

What weird response is that. That really sounds like someone completely unrelated to this project is trying to spread malware. If you agree, we should report/block the user and delete the comment.

yes I reported also the spam/malware to github, thanks 👍🏻

The actual question I cannot answer but I also have no real opinion on what should happen on a call without arguments.

[grisu48]

@ilmanzo I cannot reproduce this issue, when I simply run openqa-mon then I get the help message (as it should be):

phoenix@racetrack-7290:~> openqa-mon
Usage: openqa-mon [OPTIONS] REMOTE
  REMOTE can be the directlink to a test (e.g. https://openqa.opensuse.org/t123)
  or a job range (e.g. https://openqa.opensuse.org/t123..125 or https://openqa.opensuse.org/t123+2)

OPTIONS

  -h, --help                       Print this help message
  --version                        Display program version
  -j, --jobs JOBS                  Display information only for the given JOBS
                                   JOBS can be a single job id, a comma separated list (e.g. 42,43,1337)
                                   or a job range (1335..1339 or 1335+4)
  -c,--continuous SECONDS          Continuously display stats, use rabbitmq if available otherwise status pulling
  -e,--exit                        Exit openqa-mon when all jobs are done (only in continuous mode)
                                   Return code is 0 if all jobs are passed or softfailing, 1 otherwise.
  -b,--bell                        Bell notification on job status changes
  -n,--notify                      Send desktop notifications on job status changes
  --no-bell                        Disable bell notification
  --no-notify                      Disable desktop notifications
  -m,--monitor                     Enable bell and desktop notifications
  -s,--silent                      Disable bell and desktop notifications

  -f,--follow                      Follow jobs, i.e. replace jobs by their clones if available
  --no-follow                      Don't follow jobs
  --rabbitmq                       Explicitly enable rabbitmq (experimental!!)
  --rabbit FILE                    Explicitly enable rabbitmq and load configurations from FILE
  --no-rabbit                      Don't use RabbitMQ, even if available
  -p,--hierarchy                   Show job hierarchy (i.e. children jobs)
  --hide-state STATES              Hide jobs with that are in the given state (e.g. 'running,assigned')

  --config FILE                    Read additional config file FILE
  -i, --input FILE                 Read jobs from FILE (additionally to stdin)

2023, https://github.com/grisu48/openqa-mon

Could you please post the command that gives you this screenshot?

[ilmanzo]

I guess is caused (and reproducible) by having a DefaultRemote entry in openqa-mon.conf :

## Default remote to use, if nothing is defined
DefaultRemote = http://openqa.opensuse.org

when I comment it, I get the help screen; when present, openqa-mon starts to fetch unwanted jobs from the remote.

So could be feasible to just ignore that setting when command line is empty?

[grisu48]

#174 fixes this issue