On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:57 PM Michal Novotny <cl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 12:43 PM Tomas Tomecek <ttome...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> > * Matthew Miller: >> > >> > >> > Make it cheap to maintain branches. I expect that one what to achieve >> > this would be to build directly out of Git, with synthesized release >> > numbers and changelogs. This way, you can apply a lot of fixes to >> > multiple branches without encountering mandatory conflicts. >> >> We are aiming for something similar what you just described. I created >> this wiki page to describe the work briefly: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CI/source-git >> >> The actualy work is happening here now: >> >> https://github.com/user-cont/source-git >> >> We would love to take development off dist-git (but keep dist-git!) and >> move it to git repos with real source code which match upstream >> repositories. In such repo you have branches which track respective Fedora >> versions -- you can easily cherry pick fixes. We would validate every pull >> request in such repo and stuff would get merged only when it passes >> testing. Right now we are trying to write minimal code to make such thing >> work, evaluate it and present at devconf.cz to get some more feedback. >> >> Hopefully we would utilize clime's work to help with changelogs and >> release numbers: https://pagure.io/rpkg-util/pull-request/15 > > > So that would be cool if my work is actually used. I recommend looking at > https://pagure.io/rpkg-util/blob/master/f/macros specifically if you > could use that. > > I planned to open a PR for python-rpkg do enable this functionality in > Fedora but I am being delayed by work on rpkg-3.0, which is yet another > *pkg client. > > Anyway, if there is some interest in making this available in Fedora soon, > I can happily do it first. Just kick (contact) me. > To be clear, the macros can only do the second point from "What and why?" > at https://github.com/user-cont/source-git. > The README was changed meawhile so the second point from here: https://github.com/user-cont/source-git/blob/3f0875dcaa08a48562d19879cf53104bcac5cdd4/README.md > > As for Fabio's question below if this would imply mirroring upstream Git > repos in our DistGit: If rpkg macros are employed (linked above), then > both use-cases (mirroring and uploading tarballs) will be possible. It > will depend on packager's decision for each individual package and you > could switch between these two anytime. It would also actually mean that > development stays on DistGit and is encouraged there. > > M. > > >> >> >> >> Tomas >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >
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