-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 10 Apr 2013 01:19:49 PM EDT, Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 09:08 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> Historically, chain-builds were only supported in the Rawhide >> branch because it was the only location that could auto-generate >> the buildroot. >> >> However, the modern version of bodhi now supports allowing users >> to submit individual packages to the buildroot of any branch. >> >> It would make life easier for a great many people if 'fedpkg >> chain-build' could gain the capability to automatically submit >> buildroot overrides on non-Rawhide branches. >> >> I've opened an RFE on the upstream fedpkg project here: >> https://fedorahosted.org/fedpkg/ticket/6 >> >> This might make an excellent and highly-useful GSoC project. >> I've added it to the Summer Coding Ideas Page[1]. I'm not the >> best person to act as mentor, since I don't know the code, but >> I'd be okay acting as a backup mentor. > > I know the code quite well, as I implemented a fedpkg-like tool > (also based on pyrpkg) for $dayjob, and I had sent a few patches to > Jesse. (which reminds me I still have a couple that I never sent > back!) > > I also know the Bodhi code intimately, again because I deployed it > at $dayjob (and that implied quite extensive patching to remove > hardcoded Fedora assumptions). > > However, I don't have commit permissions to fedpkg (but I do have > them for Bodhi), and as such I wouldn't be able to ensure the > changes actually get merged. > > So I probably wouldn't be the best person to mentor either, but if > a student is interested and nobody else wants to, I could > eventually act as one. > > Frankly, you sound like the perfect person to be the primary mentor for this effort, if you're willing. Can I add you to the proposal page? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFln+QACgkQeiVVYja6o6MToQCghmPURVUNjpVWq0LJEYHRSrpf 4QAAoKw2ryBhDxsRJqa61lkEw+ph4/j/ =rkFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
