On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 21. 02. 25 12:41, Fabio Valentini 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). > > IIRC this is the direction we explicitly decided not to go with %autorelease. > We wanted the rebuild reason committed.
Those are kind of two orthogonal issues. You could still use an empty commit if you *want* a changelog entry :) Fabio -- _______________________________________________ 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
