Re: Upcoming Fedora kernel workflow changes

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On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 10:11 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > This should come as no surprise to those who have been following
> > the
> > kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there
> > are
> > some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in
> > the
> > next couple of weeks.
> > 
> > For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist-
> > git,
> > this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be
> > easier.
> > 
> > We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in
> > the
> > dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts
> > to
> > turn the source tree into something that can be automatically
> > checked
> > into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the
> > dist-
> > git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
> > 
> > The git repository is currently hosted at
> > https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/. Documentation (still
> > very
> > rough) for common tasks is at
> > https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/wikis/home. There are a
> > few
> > outstanding merge requests to get the tree fully synced up with the
> > current state of the dist-git repository, so if you decide to jump
> > in
> > and try things out, be aware things might not work.
> > 
> > As part of this, we're going to start bridging merge requests to
> > this
> > list as emailed patch series for those who prefer email, and turn
> > any
> > emailed patches to the list into merge requests, so the list is
> > going
> > to get quite a bit more traffic.
> 
> How do we ensure that this repo on gitlab.com is as trustworthy as
> the
> tarballs extracted from upstream kernel.org repos?
> 

The git tags are still signed by Linus. Does that cover your concerns?

- Jeremy
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