----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:19:08 AM > Subject: Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change Proposal: ELN Buildroot and Compose V3 > > So although this update clarifies some part, we have not moved anywhere: > > > ~~~ > > === Can we do this in a branch instead of in master? === > > This adds no value to the current approach where Red Hat maintainers > would manually merge their changes into the internal build > infrastructure. There's no way to automate the sync from the `master` > branch to the `eln` branch that wouldn't break and require maintainer > involvement. Attempting to branch only individual packages would > introduce significant complexity in the build process as well, leading > to far more opportunity for bugs. Lastly, even the most diligent of > maintainers can forget to sync every change to a new branch, thus > leaving us in a situation where the `eln` branch has fallen behind and > is no longer providing an accurate view of whether the package is still > building or functioning in that environment. I'm actually doing this in my COPR all rubygems[1], as a part of my (mostly automated) workflow. It does add some manual overhead, but I think it's doable (maintaining the additional branch), but only if one can force-push into it. Regards, Pavel [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pvalena/rubygems/ > > ~~~ > > > I wonder where this comes from. I am participating in this thread, > representing Ruby maintainers in RHEL and Fedora, in other places of the > thread, I see Miro Hrončok, Tomáš Orsava and Pert Viktorin representing > Python RHEL and Fedora maitainers, as well as Petr Písař, the RHEL and > Fedora representative of Perl. All in all, it represents ~1/2 packages > in Fedora/RHEL. I hope that I can say that these people shares a view > that branch, fork, PR is the way to go. > > Yet we are not able to convince you. So I wonder who this proposal > actually represents? Who is the target audience? Who are the Red Hat > maintainers you mentioned in the proposal? > > > Vít > > > > Dne 31. 03. 20 v 17:31 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a): > > I sent out the V2 version of the Change on Friday and then promptly > > managed to injure myself and be away from email until today. I've read > > through the email threads again this morning and I decided that, > > rather than try to address them one by one, I'd try again with a V3 > > that hopefully answers some of the repeated questions and concerns on > > that list. > > > > Please see the newly-updated > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ELN_Buildroot_and_Compose > > for more details[1]. > > > > > > [1] > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Changes%2FELN_Buildroot_and_Compose&type=revision&diff=569904&oldid=569809 _______________________________________________ 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
