On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 14:31 +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > After reading your explanation of how gentoo does packaging, it > indeed makes a lot of sense and feels like that most of the > concerns I pointed out have solutions or could be mitigated. > > The biggest problem I personally see is the effort which would be > needed to pull this off: it would take years to accomplish, a ton of > teams would be involved and all the maintainers would need to > cooperate - and then we'd need to do the same thing for CentOS Stream > and RHEL. > > Such a change to the development workflow would be massive and the > level of coordination would be immense. That's all I can say. I agree, it would be a lot to change. > > Looks like the gentoo-bot is a critical piece of the development > process so that people are able to progress with their contributions > efficiently. It certainly does feel pretty helpful. Even if we don't go for a monorepo here, one could imagine a bot like that being useful here too. > > Thanks Randy for such a great write-up. Now that I think about it, > the monorepo proposal is orthogonal to the source-git proposal as the > two workflows serve different purposes: one is meant for development > (source-git: write a patch), the other one for integration into the > operating system (tinker with a spec file or the build system). Yeah I do think they are orthogonal concerns. Enjoy your weekend Tomas (and everyone!)
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