Re: packaging work is becoming increasingly cumbersome

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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:05:50 -0800
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Julian Sikorski <belegdol@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > While I am sure these changes are done with an aim of improving
> > things in the long run, the churn caused by them is really starting
> > to take a toll on my motivation. Could something be done to
> > mitigate the inconveniences caused by the infrastructure upgrades?
> >  
> 
> From memory, there seem to have been a number of server-side changes
> in Fedora's infrastructure that are deployed before the relevant
> updates become stable.  Would it make sense to try to avoid making
> breaking changes to the infrastructure until the mandatory updates
> have been in -updates long enough to mirror out all the way?

In some cases that is definitely an option. 

For some of the things at the flag day it wasn't because if the package
was stable before we changed the server side it may have stopped
working at all for people. 

In any case I don't think we have any more flag days planned (and
hopefully we can avoid them).

kevin

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