On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 01:17:02PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hello. > > With the recent discussions about provenpackagers in Fedora, I > recently got an idea. > > One of the common needs for provenpackagers is to simply "bump and > rebuild" a set of dependencies. > > All packagers are already able to build anything (except a very > specific and small set of specially-signed packages). However, to > bump the package, they need commit rights. For that reason, > provenpackager rights are often required. > > With the wide adoption of %autorelease, such bump commits are empty, > which should be easy to verify. > > What if we allowed all packagers to push empty commit to any > package? That should eliminate *some* need for provenpackager > access. We would also communicate in our policies that such bumps do > not require prior agreement with the maintainers to avoid confusion > about "what are we allowed to do".
Seems like a sensible proposal. Some possible modifications: - Limit this only to rawhide? - If we don't restrict it only to Rawhide, should we encourage the packager to preserve ffwd to the rawhide branch, if that is currently the case? [Whatever the technical term for that is.] Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
