On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 03:25:29PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > src-git is exclusively used for downstream Fedora packaging, so I > don't expect upstreams to be interested at all, unless upstream > developers are also the Fedora packagers, right? I'm also assuming So, we do have a lot of software where the upstream developers _are_ also Fedora packagers. So that's an easy first case. > that direct commits to dist-git will be blocked if src-git is > enabled -- because otherwise how would we keep them in sync and > avoid breaking src-git? -- and the only way to commit to dist-git > would be via src-git. Is that right too? Nope! The Packit Service bot works just like a human packager and syncs back changes other packagers have made. > > Could we set up open-source Gitlab and run that? Well, history has > shown that the answer is "probably not, actually". > I don't believe it. If GNOME and KDE and freedesktop.org and Debian > and Purism can all do it, I'm pretty sure Fedora can too. GNOME has > two sysadmins handling all of GNOME infrastructure, one of whom is > part-time, but GNOME GitLab never seems to lag too far behind > upstream. Okay, so: consider this an open invitation for anyone to prove me wrong, here. (I'm serious.) > I'll avoid responding to the big list of other cool stuff we could > be doing, since it's hard to argue that cool stuff is cool. ;) :) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure