On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:51:00PM +0000, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:45 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > > On 11/08/2017 07:13 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:03:30AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > >> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > >>> We have such special protections for the kernel (signing), firefox > > (trademarks), > > >>> and for bootloaders (signing again), and some packages which don't > > consider > > >>> the fedora repo the canonical location for sources. > > >>> > > >> > > >> Hold the phone! When did we allow packages to not consider the Fedora > > >> Dist-Git the canonical location for sources? > > > > > > For fedora-release the idea is that "upsteam" has a copy of the spec > > > file, and the changes are supposed to be copied both ways. But I think > > > there's no disagreement with retiring "upstream", so this issue should > > > be moot soon (independently of the other stuff being discussed). > > > > Well, this thread has had posts from 1 of the 4 maintainers. > > I don't think it would be appropriate to change the package workflow > > without input from the others. > > > > IMHO, if the problem here is that preset requests aren't being processed > > quickly enough, I'd be happy to add at least you (and any others that > > showed over time they understand how presets work and can review PRs) to > > review, create and merge PRs and build and push updates. > > > > I don't know that anything else dramatic needs to happen here... > > > > > Well, the merging to the upstream repo is only the start of the process. > There's also a really awkward creation of a new tarball that has to be > imported over in dist-git, then the spec file updated, etc. > > What I think Zbigniew is asking for is the ability to more quickly get > *builds* including preset updates. Right now, even when the merges to the > upstream repo happen quickly, it's often measured in weeks how long it > takes to actually get a build of the Fedora RPM.
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