On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:32:46AM +0100, Guido Aulisi wrote: > Il giorno mar 28 gen 2020 alle ore 10:04 Richard W.M. Jones > <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > > > I always think that Fedora works fine if you maintain 1-5 packages. > > It's possible to maintain 20 with a lot of work. And if you want to > > maintain 100+ (things like the ocaml-* set that I help to maintain) > > then you have to write your own automation. Could we do things > > better? No one asked for them, but here are my ideas ... > > > > --- > > > > * kill the %changelog > > > > Please, let's kill it, and generate it from the git changelog. > > I'm glad to see there's a proposal to do this. > > > > A general principle I'm following here is a packager should never > > be asked to enter the same information twice. > > > > * committing to git should build the package > > > > Is there a reason why this wouldn't be the case? > > Sometimes you only add comments to the spec file and a rebuild is not needed. What % of commits to dist-git are this scenario ? I've done this myself but a few times but for myself it is a 2-3% of my commits don't involve a build. There is no real harm in doing a build in these cases IMHO. It would have negligible extra burden on Fedora build infrastructure, while potentially simplifying the common case for maintainers. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ 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
