On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:20 AM Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Neal Gompa > > It's interesting that you bring this up, because SUSE elected to do > > this for the SLE 15 development[1]. All the sources are public, and > > while only a few things (a few bots and SUSE employees) can submit > > into SLE 15, it's been helping them with the Leap 15 development and > > for making sure stuff is properly synchronized between Factory (their > > equivalent of Rawhide), the openSUSE Leap 15 development tree, and the > > SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 development tree. Technically, I can > > indirectly contribute to SLE 15 through submitting change requests to > > the Leap 15 project, which has some interesting implications. > > This is interesting, but I wonder how often we shoot ourselves in the > foot by comparing an idea to what someone else kind of already did > that's similar but not exactly the same. I'd rather see us take an > idea and evaluate what we, Fedora, want out of it. And I know we kill > ideas because of doubt, so let's not do that right now. Let's go > through the exercise and see if this is something that will be > beneficial and *worth* discussing with Red Hat rather than just > assuming it would be shot down. > > > The holy grail would be allowing people to submit PRs that Red Hat > > folks could consider to include into RHEL 8, but honestly, I don't > > think it'll happen. I even doubt we'd be able to have EL branches of > > packages merged into Dist-Git. And mirroring CentOS branches is not > > particularly useful (though their Git frontend is garbage...), a link > > to the package in CentOS Git would be sufficient for people to find > > the equivalent in CentOS for Fedora packages. > > So a few specific theoretical benefits would be: > > - Better Git frontend for CentOS > - Possibility to submit PRs against RHEL branches > - Easy to see changes from RHEL and Fedora (and CentOS). > > What are some others? > > Having such branches available could help with EPEL as well. In RHEL 7, we had no official python3 packages in the main repositories, so EPEL 7 tended to carry them. Having an EPEL branch that can easily pull from the RHEL/CentOS branch and apply just the diff necessary to build the missing pieces would be very handy (and easier on maintainers to keep up-to-date). This in turn might lead to people being more inclined to maintain things in EPEL.
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