On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:57:39 +0100 > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 15-02-16 13:47, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> > While I'm still very much on the fence about this, moving to pagure >> > for dist-git might very much help in these situations. Being able >> > to send a pull request with your changes easily means you've fixed >> > it, the maintainer just needs to pull it in. All of the >> > information is contained within that pull request. It would seem >> > to solve many of our communication issues. >> >> I do not think that adding a pull-req to the process of proven >> packager commits is really helpful. To me this feels like adding >> unnecessary red-tape in a response to one are two cases where a >> provenpackager commit was not 100% to the liking of the maintainer. >> >> How many proven packager commits do we have a day / a week ? And how >> much of those lead to "raised eyebrows" of the official package >> maintainer ? >> >> I think that with things like broken deps due to soname bumps + >> mass-rebuild failures having proven=packagers help out is 99.9% >> of the time very welcome help. I certainly always value such help >> with my packages. >> >> Both as a maintainer (having to respond to pull-reqs means extra work) >> and as a proven packager I'm not in favor of adding this extra >> red-tape. >> >> Note that it does not matter how easy you make this, it is still more >> work then the current process for both the proven-packager and the >> maintainer. And no it is not just 5 seconds with a good gui, that >> totally discounts the mental load of needing to do another task >> and loosing concentration / breaking your work flow because of those >> 5 seconds. > > dunno if Josh means the pull requests to be mandatory, but they would > add a nice option how to provide fixes for package maintainers from > non-proven packagers. A review of the suggested changes can be useful > and will be easier than patch attached in bugzilla. Yes, this is true as well. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
