On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 6:26 AM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 06:31:04AM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > Where is that checklist? I found > > I don't know myself. > > Fair -- a lot of this stuff is individual experience and wisdom that we > haven't recorded, but need to. > > > > > But it seems like "request an EPEL branch" should generally be either > > > "Okay! > > > Doing that automatically now" or "Oh, this is in EL, sorry"*. What are the > > > other cases? > > > > As far as I know this isn't about requesting EPEL branches, as much as > > requesting any branches by hand. If I add something to Fedora rawhide > > and then ask for a F34 branch, the same issues can happen. Remember > > our build infrastructure is a pile of band-aids on top of duct tape on > > top of bungee cords. Lots of tools are written for a toolchain which > > existed years ago and have been hacked to make it work with whatever > > new initiative that comes into play. 'Unexpected' side effects and > > corner cases happen all the time and the fixing of them tends to add > > new ones. > > Sure. But also, asking people to spend a lot of their time running > grunt-work tasks means that they have less time to fix when things break, > let alone re-engineer away some of that tech debt. It seems like we should > be able to automate the simple cases (adding F34 and F35 branches should be > even easier, since we don't have the "is it in EL?" question even). >
It is also possible to automate the "is it in EL?" question too, since we now have access to a Koji instance we can query for that information. According to the CentOS Stream 9 contributor guide[1], if it's in c9s-compose, then it's published content. [1]: https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/#_whats_going_on_with_package_x -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
