On 6/6/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:31 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>
> Right. I really don't think we want to just take our current system,
> switch out CVS, and end up with all of the same workflows. The change
> should be more about how do we improve workflows. That means thinking
> about things like:
> * How do we make it easier for a maintainer to rebase their package to
> a
> newer upstream?
> * How do we make it easier for a maintainer to develop, test, and
> create
> a patch to fix a problem that's being experienced in Fedora?
> * How do we make it easy to send these patches to the upstream of the
> project being worked on?
> * How do we enable downstreams to take our bits, track them and make
> changes as they need/want?
> * How do we better enable a user who has a problem with something we
> ship to be able to fix it themselves and get the fix back to us?
stuff snipped.
o Do we want to move to a process where code is just in a repo and
it's
built automatically instead of source + patches + spec file?
I am on fumes as I said.. but I do not see how the last 2 points above
from Jeremy can be done with this one. Do you have an idea or is this
something that is blindingly obvious?
Thanks.
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