Hey @jonathanspw, first, thanks for this suggestion.

We have talked about this and these are our thoughts.

This involves factoring the SRPM build out of the current build process and make it a separate first step, this is:

1. try building the srpm
2. if no srpm can be built - mark build as failed
3. if we got an srpm - keep going with rpm building

It would involve some non-trivial refactoring of our current workflow, but we believe that this won't only be beneficial in building (or failing) speed, but also, it's a good opportunity for us to simplify the current logic around the srpm_built checks, that now can be go into a separate process_srpm method and process_rpms will become simpler.

It would also involve updating the UI to reflect the changes. Right now, we have this:

And when looking at build logs, we get this:

After the changes are made in backend, we'd need to:

• Remove the SRPM build logs from current arch build logs view
• Add a new src column alongside the rest of the arches, and upon clicking on it, it'll show the SRPM build logs