-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For some time, the Fedora Infrastructure team and fellow community members have been working on service upgrades for package dist-git. This includes creating a Pagure front end like the one at <https://pagure.io>, a separate instance that enables forks and pull requests on dist-git. This change solves multiple problems -- both common, current ones, and predicted future ones -- that stymie community growth and contribution. Examples include proposing simple packaging fixes, changes to the dist-git branching model, and enabling better, more continuous production models for Fedora. These changes will *not* require packagers to change their workflows for existing processes. Using fedpkg and git at the command line to manage packaging will work just as before. However, it will now be possible for other contributors to suggest changes in a fork/pull-request model. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME. WHY NOW? - ------------------------------------------------- If you've been paying attention to release tooling efforts in Fedora, you know we're trying to accelerate the release of the Atomic Host deliverable. Part of this effort is establishing a pipeline for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Fedora[1]. This and the modularity effort also are driving the establishment of services like this dist-git front end. The hooks and capabilities of Pagure are part of enabling CI/CD. In early phases, these efforts will target the packages that comprise the Atomic Host, rather than the entire universe of Fedora packages. This temporary measure will prove out the pipeline in an open source, iterative way. In later phases, packagers throughout Fedora will be able to opt-in to the pipeline as well. The benefit is that we will know more often whether a package has problems before either breaking the distro or impacting users. In the future, we hope this will have a positive impact on Rawhide, making it usable by more of the community, more often. WHAT TO EXPECT - -------------- One of the contributions expected in this early phase is testing. The standard interface[2] developed as part of the CI effort provides a framework for test contributions. Shortly after Pagure/dist-git shows up, we hope to receive test contributions from quality engineers for packages that comprise the Atomic Host. These should come in the form of pull requests for the package maintainers, following the established standards. This is a benefit for Fedora not only because it kickstarts the CI effort, but because it provides examples the whole Fedora community can use in later phases. The intention is that maintainers and co-maintainers continue to control these tests so they can modify or add to them as needed. If you're a packager with a package in the Atomic Host, you may receive pull requests soon after the new Pagure instance is deployed, with these tests included. We encourage you to review and merge these pull requests (provided they look good), so your package can take advantage of the CI work. If you have problems with the pull request, you can use the Pagure instance to work with the contributor to fix it. It is possible to turn off PRs for your dist-git repo in the repo settings. However, we strongly encourage you to allow PRs because this is a strong source of potential contributions with little or no downside. We plan to work with FESCo on a project-wide policy that makes sense and fits Fedora's values. WANT TO TRY IT OUT? - ------------------- If you're interested to see what this new capability looks like, and want to test a working version, visit <https://src.stg.fedoraproject.org/pagure/>. Changes here won't affect the actual Fedora RPMs, but the staging instance lets you explore the new functionality. Note that the staging content is updated on a schedule, so some newer package data may not appear there. It will be at least a few more weeks before the production instance is ready. We appreciate your constructive feedback and bugs[3], as always. * * * [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CI [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InvokingTests [3] https://pagure.io/pagure/issues - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFZXmrvrNvJN70RNxcRAv2CAJsHL66rtcFl6z/ooEOyfexkye3gBQCeOpHF LQjAwhGOmVD2kjCD4W5Ql0c= =AyX9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list -- devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-announce-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
