On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 01:45:12AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > Of course, EPEL vs Fedora comes to mind here, but I wonder: if the EPEL > > maintainer has also commit on the Fedora branches, is it really that much > > of a big deal? And vice-versa? > > Well, I don't want to get the EPEL bugs assigned to me. And you would not get them so, everything is fine \ó/ > > PS2: I am also considering this question having in mind the change in > > branching model the modularity work will bring (ie: branch no longer tied > > to a Fedora version but rather to upstream's version) > > As I already mentioned in person when this came up in a DevConf talk, I > think that this is a plan that will likely break a lot of things, especially > the expectations all our users rely on (that everything in Everything has a > consistent guaranteed life time), and that doing away with that expectation > is going to make Fedora a lot less useful for many of our users (including > myself and probably also other contributors). Guaranteeing a life time for > the modules included in specific deliverables (spins, "editions", etc.) does > not help, because in the real world, users install many add-on packages from > our repository, its size is one of the main strengths of Fedora. > > In fact, this change may even make me look for another distribution, and I > cannot be the only one. I cannot possibly track for each of the hundreds of > packages (not counting texlive-* because they all come from the same SRPM, > otherwise I would write "thousands" rather than "hundreds") that I have > installed when I have to manually switch to a later major version because > the maintainer arbitrarily decided to discontinue the version that I am > using. Nor do I want major versions automatically dragged in without > warning. The Fedora releases are a great point to put in major changes like > that. > > All in all, I think modularity causes more problems than it solves. There > are major practical advantages of having global release branches with a > global lifetime. I think your input here is valid, but I would propose you start a new thread for this. Thanks, Pierre _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
