RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Till Maas
Hi, while cleaning up retired packages (which I did not yet finish), I came up with an idea to simplify the retirement procedure to avoid inconsistencies. With the help of fedmsg I would like to make it enough wrt to koji and pkgdb to add a dead.package file to dist git to retire a package. When

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 19:21:53 +0100, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: What are your opinions about this? I already checked with Dennis Gilmore, he is ok with this. Is there a fail against doing this in released versions? (Unless there is a legal reason to do the retirement, we

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:35:13PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 19:21:53 +0100, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: What are your opinions about this? I already checked with Dennis Gilmore, he is ok with this. Is there a fail against doing this in released

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:21:53PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: Hi, while cleaning up retired packages (which I did not yet finish), I came up with an idea to simplify the retirement procedure to avoid inconsistencies. With the help of fedmsg I would like to make it enough wrt to koji and pkgdb

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Ralph Bean
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:35:13PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 19:21:53 +0100, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: What are your opinions about this? I already checked with Dennis Gilmore, he is ok

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 2:30:23 PM, Ralph Bean wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:35:13PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 19:21:53 +0100, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: What are your

Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

2013-11-27 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:01:07PM -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: What about un-retirement? It is critical that administrators be able to handle this side of the packaging process, even after a release has been branched. This is out-of-scope for my proposal, except that no packages should be