Koji 2.0 planning

Mike McLean mikem at redhat.com
Tue Jun 2 18:29:05 UTC 2015


On 06/02/2015 10:07 AM, Adam Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Mike McLean <mikem at redhat.com> wrote:
>> It's been eight years since koji 1.0. In that time Koji has grown a lot, but
>> always incrementally and with great care to avoid breaking compatibility.
>> Over the years, we've found numerous things that we wanted to add or change,
>> but that we dismissed as too big, too complicated, or too invasive.
>>
>> Bumping the major release number gives use the freedom to shake things up a
>> bit. Koji 2.0 is about making major changes, otherwise it would just be koji
>> 1.13.
>
> This is extremely exciting! Thanks for kicking off the discussion.
>
> I was curious if there are any thoughts on the topic of whether this
> would be a complete rewrite or continued iteration on the current code
> base?

Not a complete rewrite, more of an extreme refactor. Koji does a lot of 
things well and I don't want to lose the good parts. Some areas will see 
major changes, others less so. Also, I expect to move a lot of code 
around so that it is more sensibly organized.




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