On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:00:15 +0100 > Michal Novotny <cl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I honestly don't understand what is purpose of the f26 vs master. > > > Why we have empty master currently (speaking of dist-git)? master > > > should be the same as rawhide, as it is in Fedora. > > > > > Yes, I think that makes more sense as well. > > > > > > P.S. Adding devel to the recipient list so that more people can > > comment. > > Well, my thought was this would be a good way to clean out old stale > projects. ie: > > right now we have f26 (rawhide), f25, f24 > > once we branch f26, projects have f26, f25, f24 and if they like they > can enable and rebuild for the now existing f27 (rawhide). > > When f24 goes eol and is disabled, look at projects that don't have any > builds anymore and remove them. > > repeat each cycle. This means you need to pay attention and rebuild > your coprs for new branches as they appear, but it also means if you > don't the old project disappears. > That's true but maybe if we make sure the time of the latest build is communicated clearly to the user of the copr, it will be enough. > > Of course many projects also build for epel, so they would stick around > for that reason for a long time. > > If we move back to having a rawhide/devel/master repo the problem > becomes "which rawhide" ? if you build something in that branch a year > ago, what are the chances it will still work? > > Yeah, not very high chances. However, rawhide is still moving so people probably do expect the packages there not to have very wide 'it-works' lifespan. If I consider a use-case of a package developer/maintainer that wants to prepare his or her package for next Fedora release, then I think that for those COPR users (I met one), rawhide naming is more intuitive and I would like to be good to them. > Just my thoughts... > > Thank you, Kevin. > kevin > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > >
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