As discussed in https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/4480 , Bodhi currently never marks Rawhide updates as critical path, because the 'branch' value for the "Fedora 37" release in Bodhi (which is currently Rawhide) is set to 'f37', and Bodhi queries PDC for critpath components using that name, but PDC expects to be queried with the name 'rawhide' for Rawhide.

@mattia says that the correct fix for this would be for the Bodhi release that is currently the same as Rawhide - so, right now, "Fedora 37" - to have "rawhide" set as its branch name, not "f37". He points out that the sample command in the SOP does say --branch rawhide.

So if I'm understanding things correctly, this is what should happen at branch points. A new Bodhi release should be created, called "Fedora NN", but with its branch name as "rawhide", not "fNN". The release which is being branched should have its branch name changed from "rawhide" to "fNN".

So for instance when Fedora 38 is branching, there should already be a "Fedora 38" release in Bodhi which has the branch name "rawhide". That release's branch name should be changed to "f38", and a new release called "Fedora 39" should be created, with the branch name "rawhide". Does that makes sense? If so, the SOP should be updated to explain this more clearly, it should be followed in future, and the existing "Fedora 37" release's branch name should be changed from "f37" to "rawhide" until Fedora 38 branches.