On Wednesday, 07 February 2007 at 19:27, Warren Togami wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > >Can we please keep things no more complicated than they were? Initial > >import > >into devel should not require any admin interaction. If it does, why do we > >need sponsorship? Getting a contributor account was difficult enough, I > >don't > >want to jump through hoops with every new package! > > > > Past: CVSSyncNeeded > =================== > Wiki sucked a lot for a work queue. 4 steps: Not quite. > 1) fedora-review+ > 2) cvs-import.sh 3) build for devel Now if you wanted to package something for non-devel (the most common case, admittedly), then the following applied, too. > 3) CVSSyncNeeded and wait... > 4) Fix-up and build The point is, with this, I could build the package immediately. > Current: CVS Admin > ================== > You ask cvs admin to create directories for you, then you do everything > all at once. This is actually FEWER steps than before. > 1) fedora-review+ > 2) fedora-cvs? and wait... > 3) Check-in and build. > > Yes, this process still sucks, but it sucks less. Let's just use this > for now, and focus on making the ideal system for the future. I want to ask again: why is it necessary to do this NOW? Why can't the changes wait until packagedb is ready? > Future: Better Automation > ========================= > I think the future infrastructure improvements like next-gen VCS and > Package Database will eventually allow us to better automate this, > perhaps making it entirely self-serve. No waiting involved. > > 1) Pre-review, import into a theoretical hosted personal VCS to make it > easy for others to review. Changes prior to approval are tracked in > history. > 2) fedora-review+ in database. > 3) System automatically validates fedora-review+. Owner can check boxes > of which branches they wish to create. Then build. > > (There are a number of security considerations we must take into account > for this to be possible. The design and implementation for example > would need to abstract access from PackageDB to VCS, limiting it to only > certain operations like "create new package".) Sounds promising. I hope we get to see this in action soon. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
