Greetings fellow Fedorans! I would like to kick off a general discussion about how we might gate packages in Rawhide. I think it would be nice to get something in place for the Fedora 29 timeframe. As one of the Bodhi contributors, I am inclined to suggest that we could use Bodhi on Rawhide, similar to how we use it for our stable/branched releases, with more relaxed rules (perhaps 1 day in testing or something simple). It may be possible to automate the process a bit to make it less heavy for developers, though there is some complication for multi-package updates (more on that in a bit). For simple package updates, we may be able to detect new commits on dist-git, and react to those by automatically starting a Koji build, and automatically filing a Bodhi update when that build is complete. I think that would be pretty nice, and pingou created a PoC[0] to do this about a year ago. Multi-package updates won't be so easy though. It's not uncommon for us to need to update packages together, and the above workflow would be problematic since it would result in updates with single packages in them rather than updates with multiple packages. Of course, buildroot overrides would be a problem too, since multi-package updates often depend on each other at build time too. We could create some way for packagers to indicate that a commit (or possibly even a whole repo) is not intended to be "autobuilt/updated". If the packager indicates this then their builds would go into a rawhide-pending (similar to what we do for f27 today). Once they have all their builds (and buildroot overrides) the way they want them, they can create the update. Another idea that was tossed around in some chats I had with people about this involved a system for packagers to use to create Koji side tags. Bodhi manages BuildRoot Overrides today (with expirations), so perhaps Bodhi could be expanded to also manage Koji side tags (also with expirations). I can't remember all the details about this approach or why it was suggested over the former approach, but I wanted to list it to invite others to chew on it and see if it could work. If you have other suggestions on how we might gate packages in Rawhide that are wildly different than the above, please feel free to share! [0] https://pagure.io/fedobuild
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