Fedora 13 has been branched!!

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:47:23AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 05:54 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> >> On 03/03/2010 05:17 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 03:34 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>>> Where is the mock update?
> >>>>
> >>>> It's been nearly 2 weeks since you've promissed to do so, but this
> >>>> hasn't happened.
> >>>>
> >>>> There still are no mock configurations providing setups for fedora-13
> >>>> (/etc/mock/fedora-13-{i386,x86_64}.cfg)
> >>>
> >>> mock-1.0.5 was pushed into updates-testing a number of days ago that
> >>> includes the new 13 configs.  They'll get moved over to the various
> >>> stables shortly.
> >>
> >> Too late, you failed to provide them in time.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Yet another perfect example of an update which should have been pushed
> > directly to stable.
> No, this package should have been in place ("in updates") at the same 
> time, the F-13 branch had been activated in Fedora's CVS.
> 
> This wasn't the case, and thus likely caused:
> 
> * maintainers wanting to "make mockbuild" F-13 package in CVS to hit 
> build failures (I did so) or to test-build against the wrong repository 
> (building against rawhide instead of F-13).
> 
> * maintainers having to waste their time on reimplementing local
> versions of /etc/mock/fedora-13-<*>.cfgs (I did so).
> 
> * third parties (e.g. rpmfusion) building packages against the wrong 
> repos, because they didn't notice they need to branch and away from rawhide.
> 
> 
> It's a mistake, ... mistakes happen, ...
> 
> The only things making me angry about this, is this particular mistake 
> (mock *.cfg not being in place in time) not having happened for the 
> first time and when taking into account the responsible person's 
> attitude and position in Fedora.

I looked up the rel-eng SOP for mass branching and added this item to
it, which I'm betting took no more time than writing unnecessarily
hostile email.  Be part of the solution.

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Mass_Branching_SOP&diff=157055&oldid=152747

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