On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 17:45 +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:41 PM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > > > Petr, I should have probably stressed that our target is Fedora (or > > > even all Red Hat operating systems). Yes, there are hundreds of > > > distributions and we cannot solve their problems. We are open for > > > collaboration though - we cannot drive changes in distributions which > > > we don't know or use. > > > > > If you only target Fedora, then it means that the same amount of Fedora > > maintainers will maintain twofold amount of repositories. Does it indeed > > save > > work? What's the benefit of maintaining more repositories? > > My personal expectation here would be that if I enabled source-git for > my packages, I wouldn't want to touch dist-git and only work in the > source-git repos. Yes, there would still be changes coming to > dist-git, and I'd inspect those from source-git. I'd even ask > contributors to use source-git for PR contributions if possible.
To give a provenpackager perspective on this - it rarely turns out to be possible. Usually when we need to touch someone else's package, it's to deal with an urgent problem - say an unannounced soname bump that requires a bunch of packages to be rebuilt, a bug preventing a nightly compose from running or causing a serious problem in it, something like that. In those situations we usually want to fix the problem *now*, not "whenever someone has time to review the 'upstream' PR and merge it and do whatever they have to do to trigger a build 'downstream'". So when I'm trying to fix an urgent issue in a package that tries to keep its spec file elsewhere, I usually just fix it in dist-git and issue apologies later. I don't see a way this is ever going to not be the case unless you give all provenpackagers commit rights to the 'upstream' repo, or have a completely automated PR merging system that also triggers a downstream build, or something like that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
