[Bug 1273579] Review Request: nest - The neural simulation tool

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273579



--- Comment #14 from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) from comment #13)
> (In reply to Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek from comment #12)
> > (In reply to Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) from comment #11)
> > > I'm happy to continue the review if another reviewer comes along,
> > I don't understand this sentence. Raphael said that he can review the
> > package in comment #8. If he cannot do it, I'm sure that somebody else (e.g.
> > me) would step up.
> 
> Oh, he dropped the review after I asked his opinion about the build system
> change in comment 9 which I took as an indication that he agreed with me
> putting off the package (He isn't the assignee any more, and he isn't in the
> CC list either) :)
Was he ever? I only see comment #8 from him.
Anyway, like I said, I can review the package.

> > > but I do
> > > think a re-review will be in order (even if unofficially) if the build
> > > system and change. 
> > Nah, the build system is not visible in the binary package. As long as it
> > builds nobody cares (except the maintainer of course).
> 
> That is what I meant - when a new build system comes, the entire package has
> to be effectively redone, and nest, as you'll see from the spec, isn't the
> simplest of packages. Totally a maintainers burden, yes, but I'm going to be
> the maintainer ;)
True. I doesn't seem so bad to me (about normal for an mpi package in fact :)),
but of course I can't and don't want to push you.

> > > Is the plan to get all the neuroscience packages into Fedora by F24, though
> > > - or can we have a "group copr" thing running and transition packages over
> > > as they pass review?
> > 
> > I don't think there's a plan to get "all" neuroscience packages into Fedora,
> > there's probably too many to even consider that.
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NeuroFedora doesn't have a specific
> > list. New packages can be added at any time, and there's quite a bit of time
> > before Fedora 24 release (2016-05-17). I don't know about any plans to have
> > a group copr. I see coprs as a good mechanism to provide alternative
> > versions of already packaged software, or often updated software, or things
> > which are inappropriate for main Fedora for other reasons. I don't think
> > nest or other science related software falls into any of those categories,
> > and making a "detour" through copr would be mostly a waste of time.
> 
> I think the list is somewhere on a google spreadsheet. I don't have the link
> handy at the moment.
I wasn't aware of that. I know there's
http://taiga.fedorainfracloud.org/project/ignatenkobrain-neurofedora/kanban
but probably not everything is on there.

> Coprs are also a good mechanism for packages that build and are functional
> but are not packaged well enough to pass a formal review yet (outer ring in
> fedora.next and all that), which is exactly what the nest package is at the
> moment.
In my experience, it's quite easy for coprs to get obsolete. If the package
is in Fedora proper, than at least it will be regularly rebuilt, sometimes
a provenpackager will do a drive-by fix of some small issue, and users can
report issues in bugzilla, crashes are colleted. I think coprs are great
for development, or for a small focuses group of users, but after using them
for a while, I'm starting to see downsides of using them as a mechanism for
distributing software to a diverse group of users, over long time.

> Anyway, I'm happy to continue the review if someone takes it up. I'll update
> the spec with Raphael's comments later this week. I already updated the copr
> package to 2.10 which came out recently. I need to work on the python3 bit
> etc.

Great! Let's see if Raphael wants to pick up the review. If not, I'll take it.

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