Whatever name is picked: devel, main, rawhide, next, etc., how about setting the default branch.
E.g. `git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/rawhide` This way when someone clones the repo they don't need to know or remember which name Fedora is using as the mainline development branch. On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:57 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08. 07. 20 15:48, Till Maas wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:03:19PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> in https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2410 I proposed to name the dist-git > >> branch for Fedora Rawhide "rawhide" to clarify the purpose of that > >> branch. There was also some feedback that Rawhide might not be the best > >> name and it could be renamed. In that case, the branch could be named as > >> this. This is just the first step to check if there is enough support > >> for this to move forward. The next step would be to start a change > >> process. > > > > Just had another idea, how about instead of branch down from the rawhide > > branch to new branched to make Rawhide always use the fxy version that > > it develops. So instead of creating branched f33 later we would rename > > master to f33 now and then once we need to branch we branch of Rawhide > > as f34? There could still be a symbolic ref called rawhide for the > > latest rawhide for convenience. What do you think? > > I like that idea. However IMHO packagers tend to forget about branching if > they > are not following Fedora development closely. > > When they do that now, they still do changes in rawhide and they might not > update their package in branched -- however in long term, this does not > matter > because their change is in all future versions. > > When they do that after this, their change will be in branched but not in > rawhide and in the long term, it will be lost. > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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