On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:58 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Le 2019-12-02 07:47, Igor Gnatenko a écrit :
> > Hi Neal,
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:58 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I think we need to recognize that we've done some poor optimization
> >> for the majority of packager workflows. Even if we consider modules,
> >> the vast majority of components will never be modularized. Moreover,
> >> we already know that the overwhelming majority of specs are managed
> >> identically across branches.
> >
> > Yeah, indeed. I think this (optimization of packager workflows) was
> > never an explicit goal of people working on Modularity.
>
> And for that reason alone, it should have been sent directly back to
> the drawing board.

It really depends on a goal. If the goal is to provide simple parallel
availability, then there is nothing to complain about. Modularity
simply has (had?) different goal.

> Creating new tooling, without trying to optimize the workflow of the
> intended users of the tooling, was always doomed to have no user
> adoption community-side.

As Neal mentioned, it was developed inside Red Hat for the Red Hat
needs (and arguably Fedora needs too).

> Making tooling for fairies, because you can redefine at will what the
> fairies want, and no actual fairy will ever materialize to contradict
> you, is easier design-side. But, it’s 100% a gamble that can (and most
> often will) misfire.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
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