On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:20 AM Matthew Miller > <[1]mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Those are my thoughts. What other challenges and opportunities do you > see, > and what would you like us to focus on? > > The packaging process has changed a lot over the last couple of years > (well, not the core fedpkg process) but I've been a packager for almost 12 > years now (Where did the time go?!?!?) and here are some things that would > help me. > Preface: I have a lot more packages but a lot less time than I did 12 > years ago. Aging parents, kids, $DAYJOB, etc... > 1. Make updating well behaved packages easier and/or more automated. > I have a few upstreams that are very organized and they don't accidentally > break API/ABI compatibility and I almost never need to patch anything. How > about an option or build those when updated, but not a "scratch build" or > a candidate build, but something in between that's gated before becoming a > candidate with a report where I can easily see what changed (pkgdiff & > abipkgdiff?) and then simply click a button if I want to create an update > or throw it away. I wonder how much of this could be achieved packit + gating + the automation added for rawhide gating. I guess some parts will be missing but potentially not so much. > 2. I find the whole fedpkg, rpkg, copr-cli and their interaction between > [2]src.fedoraproject.org and [3]pagure.io confusing. > Not only are the icons the same for the browser tab, but it seems like I'm > constantly getting generic emails telling me my api token is about to > expire and there's nothing in the email that differentiates the two sites, > nor a link. That is definitely something we want to fix, we even have ideas how, we just need to dedicate some time to do it. Pierre _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
