On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Le mercredi 25 mars 2020 à 17:33 +0100, Aleksandra Fedorova a écrit :
>
> > My point was to highlight that ELN is not a "stable edition" like
> > Fedora Server. ELN is Rawhide, its quality is no better than Rawhide
> > quality, its stability is Rawhide stability, its target audience is
> > Rawhide audience.
>
> Ok, then if I may play the devil’s advocate. Why is it not Rawhide? Are
> @rh fixes so valueless you wouldn’t want them in Fedora itself? Are
> community contributors so scary it is not possible to find
> accocmodations with them?

Any and all fixes that can apply to Fedora will be applied to Fedora
without conditionals. Period. There are changes that RHEL might make
that Fedora would not like. A fairly common one is to carry
pre-generated documentation instead of rebuilding it in the rpmbuild
so as to avoid having to BuildRequires: the doc tools. Another example
is that RHEL might want to configure the package to build only stable
features where Fedora might also want to enable experimental features.

In general, very few packages should even need conditionalizing at
all; that's why I've been saying that this discussion is premature.

>
> I *think* ELN comes from good intentions. Just like modularity came
> from good intentions. Just like Centos stream came from good
> intentions. That beind said, good intentions are not enough for a
> proposal to succeed.
>
> The core problem (root cause in ITIL speak) is that years of EL
> balkanization Centos and RHEL side, with little Fedora involvment, and
> a dearth of clear upstream/downstream  ground rules, completely tore
> down the upstream to downstream packaging pipeline. And that
> modularity, didn’t make the situation any better. Which leaves EL with
> a huge upstream problem.
>

While I disagree with the hyperbole, I agree that the
upstream-downstream pipeline has become less clear. This is intended
specifically to improve on that.
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