----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabio Valentini" <decatho...@gmail.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" 
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 4:43:21 PM
> Subject: Policy proposal (draft): Don't push knowingly broken or 
> work-in-progress work to dist git
> 
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:37 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:31 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 25. 01. 21 16:19, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > > I'm fully in favor of this and I'd really like to see us add some
> > > > degree of CI gating to support it.
> > >
> > > Note that unfortunately CI gating happens too late. It has no capability
> > > to
> > > block commits that fail to build, because it only tests successful builds
> > > and
> > > because it only tests already pushed changes. CI on Pull Requests can
> > > solve
> > > this, but many packagers seem to be very much agianst the idea of sending
> > > PRs to
> > > packages they maintain themselves :(
> > >
> >
> > There are still ways around this; we could disallow direct pushes to
> > release branches.
> >
> > Yes, there are always going to be people who reject any new approach
> > we might take, but we should carefully consider whether "some/many
> > packagers are mildly annoyed" exceeds the potential gains inherent in
> > fewer broken builds and composes.
> 
> For those few of us who maintain hundreds-thousands of packages,
> having everything go via a Pull Request is just not scalable as things
> are right now.
> 
> If packaging tools can "hide the details" around this in a reliable
> way so that packagers don't see what happens behind the scenes, then
> we can talk.
> 
> But that would involve at least six new steps that would've to be
> automated: 1) Creating a fork on src.fp.o (plus error handling around
> already existing forks), 2) Cloning the fork instead of the main repo,
> 3) Automatically creating a PR after a git push, 4) Automatically
> merging the PR if CI passes, 5) Deleting the fork, 6) Automatically
> building the package in koji ...

FWIW I have already created this tooling (and more) for maintaining my 
rubygem-* packages (and also creating updates). It can be generalized of 
course. :)

Example PR: 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rubygem-benchmark-ips/pull-request/1

I'll be presenting this on DevConf.CZ. (No external git yet, sorry.)

Pavel

> 
> Fabio
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