On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 05:27 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote: > >>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer writes: > > [...] > > >> What if I have some packages meeting the A) status above, and I > >> don't care that deeply whether they're in the F7 release but sure > >> do want them in F7 repositories as soon as possible after the > >> release; do I need to do something? > > JB> Yes, you need to email rel-eng with a request. There is no > JB> difference between "f7 release" and "in the f7 repo" in regards to > JB> Koji. The f7-final tag encompasses both at this point. > > JB> (And arguably, there is no difference between "f7 release" and "in > JB> the f7 repo" at all given that the repos can be enabled and > JB> installed from at any point.) > > So this seems to imply that all updates to (formerly-Extras) packages > for F7 (either before or after the release) must go through rel-eng? > > If so, this is going to introduce a new bottleneck that hasn't existed > up to this point for Extras packages, currently we just build and > they're released in the next push. For the point of view out non-Red > Hat contributors, it's a major change in the way packages are managed. > > I can't find any FAQ on the wiki (or definitive discussions on this > mailing list) where policy has been established and about how this is > supposed to work (other than perhaps mentioning it in discussions in > FESCo meetings). This is something needs to be front and centre right > now before F7 goes live. We've been pointing people to this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy for a while now... Then there's this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00068.html Which also says you need to email rel-eng to get stuff into the f7-final tag. Likely the reason Extras stuff isn't highlighted is because there is no Extras in the merged world. All packages follow the same process. josh -- 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
