Re: Where should branch requests be filed?

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On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 06:24:57AM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:20 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > V Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Michel Alexandre Salim napsal(a):
> > > I'm working on a tool to make it easier to create EPEL branch requests
> > > in the case where there are transitive dependencies that also need to
> > > be branched.
> > >
> > > I'm basing it on
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
> > > which provides some guidelines and some templates; however, it is a bit
> > > vague on some aspects, namely:
> > >
> > >     which product and component should the bug be filed against?
> > >
> > > I've been using Fedora/rawhide (with the FutureFeature keyword) if the
> > package
> > > has never been branched for EPEL before, and 'Fedora EPEL' / epelX
> > (where X is
> > > the branch requested) if it has, however, I can't find a written
> > document where
> > > this is recommended, though I thought I've read it somewhere in the past.
> > >
> > > If I can simply use Fedora/rawhide, this would simplify the tool a lot:
> > > - we can almost always assume there is a {'product: 'Fedora',
> > 'component': srpm}
> > >   with some rare exceptions e.g. the srpm is in base CentOS but has
> > missing
> > >   subpackages (see recent discussion on the topic)
> > > - if the package is branched for EPEL at some point, we can file the
> > request
> > >   against {'product': 'Fedora EPEL', 'component': srpm}. But what
> > version to file
> > >   against?
> > >   - bpython: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782782
> > >     phoronix-test-suite:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976280
> > >     these are the ideal cases; the request is for an 'epel8' branch and
> > 'epel7' and
> > >     'epel8' are listed as available versions, so the request was filed
> > against 'epel8'
> > >   - nextcloud-client:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972910
> > >     this is a request for 'epel8-next', but that is not available as a
> > product
> > >
> > > The tool will thus need to query Bugzilla to locate the component on
> > either
> > > Fedora EPEL or Fedora, and then figure out what versions are listed;
> > from my
> > > initial experimentation with python-bugzilla:
> > https://github.com/python-bugzilla/python-bugzilla
> > > this does not seem trivial.
> > >
> > > If filing against Fedora/rawhide is fine, I can edit the wiki to match.
> > It should
> > > probably also mention that the EPEL Packagers SIG group can be added as
> > a co-maintainer,
> > > but I'll experiment with the wording first when testing the tool.
> > >
> > The algorithm for filing bugs is complicated because there are Fedora
> > maintainers who do not want to deal with EPEL. If I were one of them I
> > would
> > feel offended that I'm getting requests for EPEL 8 if there is already
> > EPEL 7
> > maintainer.
> >
> > I want to say you should bite the bullet and implement it in the
> > complicated
> > way.
> >
> > -- Petr
> >
> 
> I second what Petr said.
> Do the check to see if it's in 'Fedora EPEL' and proceed appropriately.
> I think it would also be good to change the wording a bit depending on if
> it's already in EPEL or not.
> 
> Troy
Thanks both (and Carl, who replied on IRC). I was also surprised to not find the algorithm documented, at least not in that document, so I'll add that.

I might eventually extend python-bugzilla a bit to make it easier to do this. A lot of the operations seem to assume it's a small Bugzilla instance an would try to pre-load all the components for a given product.

Best regards,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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