Hello, As part of the Factory 2.0 and Modularity efforts[1], we’ve been developing a plan to migrate to an “arbitrary” branching model from our current model of one branch per release (as had been discussed at Flock and DevConf[2]). The main motivation behind this is to enable functionality required by Modularity[3] and to ultimately reduce some package maintenance burden. For some packages, it makes sense to have only a single branch that feeds into multiple releases. For other packages, it makes sense to have multiple branches which correlate with multiple upstream minor releases. Today, our source branches are tied to the distro release, via PkgDB. We want to decouple that and use modules to put it all back together again. To make this happen requires significant infrastructure changes. Our proposed plan[4] is to decommission PkgDB entirely and to replace it with a combination of PDC[5] and pagure over dist-git. (Tangentially, getting pagure over dist-git to play nicely with PkgDB was a challenge. This route gets us to a pull-request interface for spec files quicker.) We have brought this Change to FESCo[6][7][8] who expressed general agreement on the project but also concern that the community may be caught by off guard by the removal of PkgDB. As part of this change, we have proposed a timeline[9] that outlines the steps we plan to take to actually proceed with the migration. Please review that if you have time and provide feedback. We are most concerned with missing scripts/tools that may rely on PkgDB’s API. If you can think of any that we may have overlooked, please let us know and we will add it to the timeline! We are meeting again with FESCo next Friday, June 2nd, where a decision will be made on the Change. Any feedback before that would be greatly appreciated. Ralph and Matt, From the so-called Factory 2.0 team [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Factory2 [2] https://youtu.be/5gqccjyjwFk?t=26m27s [3] https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/ [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Factory2/Focus/ArbitraryBranching [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ProductDefinitionCenter [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ArbitraryBranching [7] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2017-05-19-16.00.html [8] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2017-05-26-16.00.html [9] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ArbitraryBranching#Timeline
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