On Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 12:42 Tomas Tomecek <ttomecek@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> * Matthew Miller:
>
>
> 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.
We are aiming for something similar what you just described. I created this wiki page to describe the work briefly:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CI/source-git
The actualy work is happening here now:
https://github.com/user-cont/source-git
We would love to take development off dist-git (but keep dist-git!) and move it to git repos with real source code which match upstream repositories. In such repo you have branches which track respective Fedora versions -- you can easily cherry pick fixes. We would validate every pull request in such repo and stuff would get merged only when it passes testing. Right now we are trying to write minimal code to make such thing work, evaluate it and present at devconf.cz to get some more feedback.
So you'd move to mirroring upstream git repositories? I personally wouldn't want to do that for my packages ... I like the current workflow with uploading the official tarballs to the fedora lookaside cache - it feels like a cleaner solution than effectively light-forking basically every open source project in existence ...
Additionally, what's the effect on disk usage? git repositories can get quite large.
Fabio
Hopefully we would utilize clime's work to help with changelogs and release numbers: https://pagure.io/rpkg-util/pull-request/15
Tomas
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