There is the current worklflow and the current mindset. One influences the other.
For a long-time gitter, the prevailing Fedora packager mindset is still very much "dist-cvs". dist-git is often used as merely a tool to drive "dist-something", not so much as a vcs, and really rarely as a tool for collaborative package management. Here are just a few examples: - Commit messages often explain almost nothing, in particular not the "why". (You can see the "what" from the diff...) - Branches for different releases are often used like separate repos without any merge-down or merge-up concept; changes cherry-picked rather than merged; release-specific differences implented by %if's in spec rather than differences between branches. - Discussion is on the ML or in BZ with no connection to dist-git (unless one mentions bz # in the commit). - Changelog in spec is completely strange from a git point of view, it even makes merging unnecessarily hard; and no, th contained info usually is not any better than the commit message. Oh, did I mention bodhi update notes? What a redundancy. So, a a new worklflow which "encourages" a proper git workflow is most welcome. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
