On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:45 PM Toshio Kuratomi <tkura...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Recently we had a discussion internally about whether to build
> upstream Ansible rpms on Fedora 29 using Python3 or Python2.  This
> lead to a question about how useful the Fedora rpms Ansible releases
> on https://releases.ansible.com/ are.  We found that for each of the
> Fedora releases, the rpms are being downloaded 300-350 times a week
> (including downloads that seem to simply be mirrors of all of the rpms
> we've built).
>
> By comparison, our builds for EPEL-7 are seeing about 8,800 downloads a week.
>
> Given this, we're thinking that we should stop building rpms for
> Fedora and instead encourage people to use the rpms provided by the
> Fedora Project themselves (which will tend to be more responsive to
> changes in Fedora's packaging ecosystem... for instance, they have
> Ansible rpms on Fedora 29 which use Python3, the default python for
> that version of the distro).
>
> If anyone uses our rpms in preference to the Fedora rpms, could you
> let us know that you do so and why you use them over the ones provided
> by Fedora?  If we don't hear of a good reason to do so, we'll probably
> stop building for Fedora in a release or two.

FWIW, I think this is a reasonable change. The Fedora maintainer for
the Ansible package is extremely active and gets updates out normally
on the same day as we release upstream. Also, for those who don't know
(which I expect would be most people) I'm a Fedora Packager and I'd be
happy to join as a co-maintainer for the Fedora Ansible package if
that would be helpful.

-AdamM

>
> Thanks,
> -Toshio
>
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