Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-27 Thread Jun Aruga
> In my experience, in 1999 I was living in the same region with an NGO > working for a backbone network. > And the NGO helped me to put my Linux server in their network for free. > In the age of non-democratized computer and internet, some > organizations helped for the new technologies. My

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-27 Thread Jun Aruga
> First, I'd like to see Fedora become more of an "operating system factory". 20s is from 2020 to 2029. 10 years. So long. So, let me write high level thoughts. And let me post a new topic. For the topic 'more of an "operating system factory"', I want to see Fedora project as a place to

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-24 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:29 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > I agree that's a challenge. Any ideas for how to address it and change these > perceptions? My 1.5 broken-cryptocurrency cents on this one. I think we should make a serious and great effort to put the users first remind us of this in every

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-23 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 15:22, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:28, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > Hi everyone! Since it's a new year and a new decade [*], it seems like a > > good time to look forward and talk about what we want the Fedora Project to > > be in the next five and even

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/15/20 8:33 PM, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/7/20 11:14 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I suspect that good marketing has something to do with it. I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 3:04 AM Benson Muite wrote: > Maybe am wrong about faces/fingerprints as passwords: > > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/08/5 There was also the infamous "gummy fingerprint" article from 2002: https://cryptome.org/gummy.htm And the mythbusters

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-15 Thread Daniel Rusek
> I think, and this is my personal opinion, that Ubuntu is so popular, > because it is easy to use for everyone. You don't need to have much > technical knowledge to use Ubuntu for most thinks that non technical > user needs and it looks good. > > Every time I'm trying to use Fedora the same

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Martin Jackson
On 1/14/20 10:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:19:49AM -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: In this vein (as other people have commented on this thread), I think it would be great to give Fedora more visibility.  Its absence as a supported image in Azure, for instance, is

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Martin Jackson
On 1/13/20 9:30 AM, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 11:19 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: I don't know if things like pipx exist for other scripting languages, but do other people think that's worth exploring? (Currently pipx uses tox in what seems like a weird way, and we'd need to

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 2020-01-13 11:34 p.m., Benson Muite wrote: Speaking about howdy, I packaged it on COPR for testing purpose and looking for improvement. Great, may be of interest: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/233 I will take a look. Note that I fork the repo for improving upstream codes

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 06:11:33PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > For what it's worth, we do continue to work on these things. It's difficult > > because we really do need to make sure we have solid legal protection. > About the whole issue of bringing Fedora to WSL, I remember that there > were

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 17:30, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:19:49AM -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > > In this vein (as other people have commented on this thread), I > > think it would be great to give Fedora more visibility. Its absence > > as a supported image in Azure,

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:19:49AM -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > In this vein (as other people have commented on this thread), I > think it would be great to give Fedora more visibility.  Its absence > as a supported image in Azure, for instance, is particularly > noticeable, and the whole

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Michal Konecny
I think, and this is my personal opinion, that Ubuntu is so popular, because it is easy to use for everyone. You don't need to have much technical knowledge to use Ubuntu for most thinks that non technical user needs and it looks good. Every time I'm trying to use Fedora the same way, I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 03:05, Benson Muite wrote: > > >> Thank you for the PDF. However, the presentation is sightly outdated > >> given the listed hardware dating from 2008. Some modern laptops are > >> equipped with a IR camera Windows Hello type device which could be > >> suitable for iris

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-14 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 10:34 AM, Benson Muite wrote: On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/14/20 9:00 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote: On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 11:19 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote: > I don't know if things like pipx exist for other scripting > languages, but do other people think that's worth exploring? > (Currently pipx uses tox in what seems like a weird way, and we'd > need to package userpath and tox-venv to make

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-13 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve say CellWriter (sorely missing due to the lack of

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-12 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 06:25:31AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:47 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:17:40PM -0500, John Florian wrote: > > > desired impact, but we should practice what we preach, at minimum: > > > make Fedora a selection for

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-11 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve say CellWriter (sorely missing due to the lack of port to Wayland compositor) and howdy, a

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-11 Thread Martin Jackson
First, I'd like to see Fedora become more of an "operating system factory". There are a few things that seem a bit out of place, in terms of RH's messaging/endorsing of Fedora, and Fedora's role as an upstream for RHEL and an engine of moving the entire Linux community forward. I think

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-11 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:47 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:17:40PM -0500, John Florian wrote: > > desired impact, but we should practice what we preach, at minimum: > > make Fedora a selection for the OS in oVirt. I wind up choosing the > > latest RHEL for all my Fedora

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > It would be interesting to analyse all those things, not to plan an rpm > replacement, but to actually fix the things upstreams are not happy > about (and, a lot of time, those won't involve rpm, and when they do >

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:17:40PM -0500, John Florian wrote: > desired impact, but we should practice what we preach, at minimum: > make Fedora a selection for the OS in oVirt.  I wind up choosing the > latest RHEL for all my Fedora VMs but I always have to wonder if > that's optimal -- and I've

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-10 Thread Tomas Tomecek
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:51 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > For me, an ultimate success would be if upstream projects would actually use > Fedora-family distros in their CI testing. And I don't mean that they would > use > Copr or packit to package RPM packages, or that they deploy their own Jenkins

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-09 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: >On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:20 AM Matthew Miller ><[1]mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Those are my thoughts. What other challenges and opportunities do you > see, > and what would you like us to focus on? >

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-09 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:20 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > Those are my thoughts. What other challenges and opportunities do you see, > and what would you like us to focus on? > The packaging process has changed a lot over the last couple of years (well, not the core fedpkg process) but I've

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:08:20AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, at 6:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > > I'd love to find a way to directly integrate the likes of gem, npm > > etc directly into our packaging rather than us having to repackage > > everything by hand but I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread Michael Watters
It would be in RedHat's own best interest to promote the Fedora project more though.  Isn't Fedora supposed to be the upstream/testing grounds for RHEL releases?  What's the best way to learn and get familiar with a RedHat based environment?  It's Fedora, although I do know RHEL offers free

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread John Florian
On 1/7/20 10:28 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: For me, the main challenge Fedora faces is **positioning**. Let me explain: (I don't have numbers but) in my (limited) experience, when seasoned sysadmins need to launch a new system, they

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread Robbie Harwood
"Colin Walters" writes: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, at 6:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> I'd love to find a way to directly integrate the likes of gem, npm >> etc directly into our packaging rather than us having to repackage >> everything by hand but I just don't see any way of doing it without >>

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 07. 01. 20 v 14:57 Iñaki Ucar napsal(a): > On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 13:28, Neal Gompa wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: >>> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > Le 2020-01-06

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Miller: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into >> > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and >> > rebuild the spin creation processes. (Particularly, I'd

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Ben Cotton
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:51 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Yes, it worked because it was a press-friendly “fairy tale” story, not > because of the cash spent on marketing (or because of the quality of > the marketed product). > It's both, though. Having a good story is part of the

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:03, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Red Hat has also always invested its marketing dollars in _product_; the > sponsorship of Fedora is _mostly_ from an engineering side. I'd *like* to > get more for these wider efforts, but in a very real way that Red Hat > investment is like

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 06:48:05PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > IBM could waste 10 times the money in marketing with less results, “Big > Blue spending loads of cash” is not a coverage-worthy story. Although to be clear if anyone from IBM is reading: _we'll take it_. :) -- Matthew

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0600, Joe Doss wrote: > > If anyone has a handy generous multi-millionaire up their sleeve, > > please call Matt. :) > *coughs* Red Hat... Red Hat *does* contribute millions of dollars to Fedora annually in time, hardware, and of course literal money.

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 18:37 +0100, Clement Verna a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 18:21 Nicolas Mailhot via devel < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit : > > > > > > I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that,

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > They had good marketing in the form of a billionaire publicly showering > > cash around “in the public interest”. The press (especially the non- > > technical press) loves this kind of story. Unfortunately, it’s not > > something

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:37 -0600, Joe Doss wrote: > On 1/7/20 11:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > If anyone has a handy generous multi-millionaire up their sleeve, > > please call Matt. :) > > *coughs* Red Hat... I *did* say "generous" -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Clement Verna
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 18:21 Nicolas Mailhot via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit : > > > > I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two > > fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Joe Doss
On 1/7/20 11:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > If anyone has a handy generous multi-millionaire up their sleeve, > please call Matt. :) *coughs* Red Hat... Joe -- Joe Doss j...@solidadmin.com pEpkey.asc Description: application/pgp-keys ___ devel

RE: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Patrick Laimbock
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > > For me, the main challenge Fedora faces is **positioning**. > > > > > > Let me explain: (I don't have numbers but) in my (limited) experience, > > > when seasoned sysadmins need to launch a new system, they usually > > > think

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 18:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit : > > I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two > > fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so > > popular among

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit : > > I'm far from having a satisfactory response to that, but I see two > fronts here. First, marketing. How does Ubuntu managed to be so > popular among less-experienced Linux users? I'm not sure, but I > suspect that good marketing has

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 16:38, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > For me, the main challenge Fedora faces is **positioning**. > > > > Let me explain: (I don't have numbers but) in my (limited) experience, > > when seasoned sysadmins need to

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Stephen J Smoogen
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, at 6:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > > Implicit in this is the idea that value should be captured at a secondary > distribution > layer. Implicit in this is the idea that distribution forks *need* to > happen. But they > don't. > > In fact, everyone here can work upstream

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > For me, the main challenge Fedora faces is **positioning**. > > Let me explain: (I don't have numbers but) in my (limited) experience, > when seasoned sysadmins need to launch a new system, they usually > think "Debian" as something

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:27:41PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > At the minimum, democratizing Koji would make it easier for Teams to > build their own stuff using any of the tools supported by Koji... Then > it's a question of documentation of how to make custom media and > describing things like

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 07. 01. 20 v 14:19 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > On 07/01/2020 13:06, Fabio Valentini wrote: > >> - ruby is weird, packaging gems is a bit of a chore, upstream has many >> knobs to fiddle with to make distro packaging hard (for example, not >> including test sources in .gem files seems to be a

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into > > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and > > rebuild the spin creation processes. (Particularly, I'd like spin releases > > to

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:28:46PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:18:16PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > Just to add my 2¢ here: I have experience with packaging stuff from > > >

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 14:06 +0100, Fabio Valentini a écrit : > > Conclusion: Some things could and should be improved Yes, there are lots of shades of gray. All recent package managers allow downloading stuff for use (or they'd have no users). Some manage to build things. Some manage

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 03:18:16PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > Just to add my 2¢ here: I have experience with packaging stuff from > > many language ecosystems (ruby/gems, python/pypi, go, Java/maven) and > > with various

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:28, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Hi everyone! Since it's a new year and a new decade [*], it seems like a > good time to look forward and talk about what we want the Fedora Project to > be in the next five and even ten years. How do we take the awesome > foundation we have

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > Just to add my 2¢ here: I have experience with packaging stuff from > many language ecosystems (ruby/gems, python/pypi, go, Java/maven) and > with various build systems (autotools, meson, CMake, etc.). The > packaging burden is

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, at 6:41 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: > > I'd love to find a way to directly integrate the likes of gem, npm > etc directly into our packaging rather than us having to repackage > everything by hand but I just don't see any way of doing it without > compromising what we do to the

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 13:58, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > [...] > > For me, an ultimate success would be if upstream projects would actually use > Fedora-family distros in their CI testing. And I don't mean that they would > use > Copr or packit to package RPM packages, or that they deploy their own

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 13:28, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > > > > Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > > > >

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 07. 01. 20 14:32, Martin Kolman wrote: On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 13:50 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: For me, an ultimate success would be if upstream projects would actually use Fedora-family distros in their CI testing. And I don't mean that they would use Copr or packit to package RPM packages,

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:34 AM Martin Kolman wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 13:50 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 07. 01. 20 13:17, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > > > > Dne 06. 01.

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Martin Kolman
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 13:50 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 07. 01. 20 13:17, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > > > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > > > > > Le

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Hughes
On 07/01/2020 13:06, Fabio Valentini wrote: - ruby is weird, packaging gems is a bit of a chore, upstream has many knobs to fiddle with to make distro packaging hard (for example, not including test sources in .gem files seems to be a common practice), there's no canonical way of running test

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 07/01/2020 12:22, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 07. 01. 20 v 12:41 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > >> The thing is that no matter how much you can manage to automate the > >> creation of spec files for a given ecosystem, and I've never seen one > >>

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 07. 01. 20 13:17, Neal Gompa wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Handling those checks is where the

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 12:30:25PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 07/01/2020 12:22, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > >Dne 07. 01. 20 v 12:41 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > >>The thing is that no matter how much you can manage to automate the > >>creation of spec files for a given ecosystem, and I've never seen one

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Dan Čermák
Tom Hughes writes: > On 07/01/2020 12:22, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> Dne 07. 01. 20 v 12:41 Tom Hughes napsal(a): >>> The thing is that no matter how much you can manage to automate the >>> creation of spec files for a given ecosystem, and I've never seen one >>> where the typical spec file

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Hughes
On 07/01/2020 12:22, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Dne 07. 01. 20 v 12:41 Tom Hughes napsal(a): The thing is that no matter how much you can manage to automate the creation of spec files for a given ecosystem, and I've never seen one where the typical spec file doesn't need some manual tweaking, you

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 07. 01. 20 v 12:41 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > The thing is that no matter how much you can manage to automate the > creation of spec files for a given ecosystem, and I've never seen one > where the typical spec file doesn't need some manual tweaking, you > are still going to hit the fundamental

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Martin Kolman wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > > > Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > > > > > > Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Miller: > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and > rebuild the spin creation processes. (Particularly, I'd like spin releases > to be decoupled from the main OS release, and for those

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Martin Kolman
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 10:36 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > > Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > > > > Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is (that is, as long > > > as Fedora is a deployment project). It is

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Hughes
On 07/01/2020 10:57, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: It is pretty clear that we've simplified rpm packaging massively over the last few years. It is enough to take a random spec file from 10 years ago, with all the fragile manual steps and compare it with modern spec file that is often just

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:36:33AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > > Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > > >> Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is (that is, as long > >> as Fedora is a deployment project).

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 10:28, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > Dne 06. 01. 20 v 18:19 Matthew Miller napsal(a): > > We're not adding meaningful end-user value by manually repackaging these in > > our own format. We _do_ add value by vetting licenses and insuring > > availability and consistency, but I

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 06. 01. 20 v 19:08 Nicolas Mailhot via devel napsal(a): > Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > >> Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is (that is, as long >> as Fedora is a deployment project). It is not something the packaging >> format makes harder. > > However,

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 06. 01. 20 v 18:19 Matthew Miller napsal(a): > We're not adding meaningful end-user value by manually repackaging these in > our own format. We _do_ add value by vetting licenses and insuring > availability and consistency, but I think we can find better ways to do > that. COPR can play

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:43 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:38:51PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into > > > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and > > > rebuild the spin

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:38:51PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into > > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and > > rebuild the spin creation processes. (Particularly, I'd like spin releases > > to

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 12:19:30PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > In support of that, I'd like to also have that page steer people into > tooling for creating new spins —- and I'd like to see us invest in and > rebuild the spin creation processes. (Particularly, I'd like spin releases > to be

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is (that is, as long as Fedora is a deployment project). It is not something the packaging format makes harder. However, because our packaging format streamlines those checks, and forces to apply

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-06 18:19, Matthew Miller a écrit : Hi, Second, we need to figure out how to work with language-native packaging formats and more directly with code that's distributed in git repos rather than as tarball releases. We're not adding meaningful end-user value by manually repackaging