On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:25:49AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 03:25:29PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > On 12/10/20 7:21 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > >On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 08:01:31AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 
> > >wrote:
> > >>
> > >>I wonder: is it necessary to request a tag, or would just self-managed
> > >>side-tag be enough?
> > >
> > >A releng made side-tag:
> > >* has a specific name
> > >* requires releng ticket to create
> > >* requires releng to merge builds back in
> > 
> > Also:
> > 
> >  * builds are merged directly to rawhide, no CI (broken stuff can be pushed 
> > in)
> > 
> > >A self-managed side-tag:
> > >* Easy to create, has random name
> > >* Needs provenpackager or commit to all builds in tag to merge
> 
> As noted by Mattia in the other part of the thread, bodhi 5.6.0
> removed this constraint...

Indeed. I forgot that had landed. :) Thanks for noting it. 
>  
> > Also:
> > 
> >  * builds go trough bodhi, where they can be stuck on gating on
> > tests that refuse to start or gating on tests that don't even exist,
> > or gating on tests that reveal that one package is broken for
> > (un)related reasons and block the entire update (is very tedious to
> > work with with large updates)
> > 
> > >Since trodgers isn't a provenpackager, probibly the releng one would be
> > >best? But also I guess fixing and rebuilding the other packages will
> > >need commit or provenpackager...
> > 
> > Even for bumping the release a provenpackager will be needed.
> 
> ... but that's still a very important point. Thomas (trodgers) is not
> a proven packager. For a magnitude of this change, another change
> owner who is a pp is simply required. It's a given that with ~170
> packages to rebuild, either a pp will be involved or things will go
> very very slowly. Just opening PRs and asking nicely is not enough.

Agreed. 

kevin

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