* Matthew Miller: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:30:06PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> I love Fedora, but the idea that you can take a 3 year old Fedora and >> put it out on the web is just bonkers. We don't have the manpower and >> the procedures to make Fedora suitable for this kind of use. > > Wellllllll, from my statistics, there's a lot of 3-year-old (and older!) > Fedora out on the web today. But that aside, let's say we wanted to do it > right *and* still keep the distro exciting and fun to hack on. > > What person-power and procedures would we need to add? Make it cheap to maintain branches. I expect that one what to achieve this would be to build directly out of Git, with synthesized release numbers and changelogs. This way, you can apply a lot of fixes to multiple branches without encountering mandatory conflicts. There is no technical reason why the payload in an SRPMs cannot contain the full exploded upstream source tree, with an RPM spec file in the root. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
