Re: Modularity Policy Discussion for EPEL 8.1

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:44:56PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:49 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/23/19 10:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > For default profiles, we have some options as well:
> > >
> > > Option 1: We disallow setting default profiles for EPEL streams. Pros:
> > > no risk of conflict with RHEL, should they now or in the future
> > > provide defaults for some streams of this module. Cons: `yum module
> > > install foo[:bar]` would not work (they would need to do `yum module
> > > install foo[:bar]/profilename`) and would likely irritate users.
> > >
> > > Option 2: We allow setting default profiles for EPEL streams. We take
> > > advantage of the defaults merging logic and ensure that if we need to
> > > supplement RHEL AppStream's defaults content, we must ship a
> > > modulemd-defaults document of the same `data.version`. This will allow
> > > them to be merged cleanly. Pros: Optimum user experience (they get the
> > > default profiles installed when they use the simplified install
> > > command). Cons: We need to constantly monitor each RHEL AppStream
> > > release and ensure that we aren't ever overriding (or being overridden
> > > by) RHEL.
> > >
> > >
> > > I think Option 2 is the better choice here (fewer angry users is a
> > > good thing), but I worry a bit about the maintenance burden of keeping
> > > track of the `data.version` values and ensuring they stay in sync. I
> > > think we can probably automate a good deal of this, though.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I would like to do 2 also if we can manage to make it mostly
> > automated.
> >
> 
> So, after discussing things at today's Modularity WG meeting, we've
> decided to make a breaking change to libmodulemd's merging logic to
> solve this much more cleanly. Full details are in
> https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd/issues/368
> 
> With that change in place, Option 2 becomes the obvious correct
> choice, since we won't have to worry about the monitoring of the
> `data.version` values.

That seems reasonable. Thank you.

-- Petr

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