On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:00 PM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Sure, I think it makes sense for improvements to
container/flatpak/module packaging to fall under the scope of this
objective as well!
I admit that Modularity is part of my motivation for filing this
objective-- I'd like to make sure we keep the packager experience in
mind as the modularity rollout continues. My worry with modularity
(which I've expressed before on the devel list) has been that the
added overhead of creating and maintaining a module will end up
detracting from the other benefits of being able to modularize
stuff... so it would be nice to help make sure that doesn't happen!
This is an interesting idea! My initial thought was that the majority
of packages probably don't *need* something like this, as they don't
differ much, if at all, from upstream. But I think even for those
packages, being able to browse a package's sources through a git
repository via Pagure rather than having to fetch and unpack the
tarballs would be a major improvement. So yes, I think trying out
source-git would be something that could fall under the scope of this
objective.
Cheers,
Ben Rosser
Ben, thank you for putting this proposal together! It's definitely the step to the
right direction.
I'm one of the people behind source-git. At the moment we are in a phase where we are
trying to figure out our goals and milestones. Our team will get together and make a plan
around devconf. We'll then announce it to Fedora to get the discussion going (feedback
is very important). The topics we are talking about are:
* Packaging automation (as Dennis pointed out -- automate tedious tasks)
* Rawhide gating and increasing its stability
* Getting upstream projects closer to downstream
* Easier packaging
* On-demand side tags (what Richard mentioned)
* More convenient packager experience
* And plenty of others, this is just off top of my head
We'll likely won't address all. So it's important for all of us to be on the
same page and work together so we don't step on each other's toes and there are
clear expectations between each other.
Matt, thanks for the pointers, I'm not on this list actually so I'm glad you made
me aware.
Tomas