On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:31 AM Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:54 PM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 08:44:39AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> >Hopefully that provides some context and helps FESCo and the wider > >> >community understand where Red Hat is headed with modularity on the > >> >Enterprise side. > >> > >> Around the idea and concept of modularity... what are the benefits to Fedora, > >> Fedora developers, and Fedora contributors? Through the various discussions > >> on modularity, nothing solid in this regard has been presented. If I am > >> Fedora contributor now, what can modularity do for me? > >> > >> Most of the remainder of this thread talks about the problems with the > >> implementation as it exists today and problems with other known options. > >> Putting that aside for now, why should Fedora contributors care about > >> modularity? > >> > >> Put another way, what does the developer experience look like for modularity? > > > > These are good questions, but I feel like there has been about 2+ > > years of discussion and debate about what Fedora could get out of > > modularity. > > Well, a short tl;dr; would certainly help, as I must admit that even > after 2+ years of discussion I see very little incentive to modularize > any of my packages. > > I see benefits of modularity for CentOS/RHEL, but not so clearly for > Fedora (except for more special cases like sway, where we have the > quickly evolving wlroots library and can thus deliver an up to date sway > even for older Fedora releases). > TL;DR benefits of modularity for Fedora: * Automating build chains for producing artifacts * Straightforward mechanism of producing non-rpm artifacts using our existing tooling (modules -> flatpaks/containers/etc.) * Path to provide alternative versions of stacks that don't natively multiversion (Nodejs, Perl, PHP, etc.) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
