> On Apr 22, 2022, at 6:44 AM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello folks, > > what would it take to allow non-packagers to push to dist-git forks without fedpkg? > > The instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ci/pull-requests/#_you_are_not_a_packager assume they run Fedora (or another distro with fedpkg), but this is extremely unfriendly to contributors who run other distros. > > The alternative is external pull request which is awesome in theory but quite tedious in practice. E.g. as a package maintainer, I cannot push my changes to a proposed external pull request. > > If I understand correctly, SSH access is a security/legal/whatever no-go for nonpackagers, but can we offer some kind of standard git mechanism to authenticate? API tokens maybe? > > If not, can we at least extract the fedpkg bits that do this and release that as a standalone easy-to-install software that we can offer or even package to other distributions? > As frequently as I find myself working in a different environment due to various constraints, having the fedpkg bits available in other environments — even homebrew — sounds like a win in my opinion.
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