Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-21 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:47 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Tangent nit-pick... Once an update has been created for a branch, why not > > at least allow it to go to stable? Seeing my packages stuck in testing > for > > eternity bothers my OCD until I push enough updates I don't see it > anymore. > >

Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-20 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 20. 09. 20 20:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote: But also because it doesn't really make sense to me. I can imagine a case when a bug in Fedora N can be fixed by adding a new package (for example when we accidentally introduce a new dependency) and I don't understand why Wouldn't that be caught in

Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:11:39PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:03 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 17:03 Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > >> > >> So, my question is: Should we fix the document to describe the long > >> standing > >> practice more

Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hello, > > As many of you know, Fedora has an EOL policy that roughly tl;drs to: > > "Fedora N goes to End of Life 4 weeks after Fedora N+2 Final Release (GA)." > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle > > The

Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:03 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 17:03 Miro Hrončok wrote: > >> >> So, my question is: Should we fix the document to describe the long >> standing >> practice more understandably, or should we change the practice to allow >> new >> dist-git branches

Re: Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-18 Thread Ben Cotton
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 17:03 Miro Hrončok wrote: > > So, my question is: Should we fix the document to describe the long > standing > practice more understandably, or should we change the practice to allow > new > dist-git branches until the actual EOL? > I'm in favor of allowing new branches

Fedora EOL wrt new dist-git branches (and my confusion)

2020-09-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hello, As many of you know, Fedora has an EOL policy that roughly tl;drs to: "Fedora N goes to End of Life 4 weeks after Fedora N+2 Final Release (GA)." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle The document also says: > Branches for new packages in the SCM are not allowed for