On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> 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".
>
> This sounds a bit more complicated than it needs to be ...
> I would much rather explore not having to push empty commits *at all*,
> and have koji auto-increment the build number if it would cause an NVR
> conflict ... (yes, this should be possible with minor changes to the
> %dist macro and some small additions to koji).
>

Yes, this is the direction we should go! :)



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