Koschei - continuous rebuilds for packages

[jpacner at redhat.com]

Hi Michael,

> Detecting soname bumps and doing real rebuilds
> instead of scratch build should be possible. Koschei could automatically start
> rebuilding dependent packages AFTER you update the library in rawhide.

That's the goal.

> But if
> you want to know what will break before you do the update then it will be
> more complicated, because Koschei will need to manage separate Koji tags and
> obviously first get permission to do so and I'm not sure whether relengs would
> be willing to make this happen.

That would be convenient - at least for critical-path packages. Anyway,
lets ask lkocman (CC) about Koji tags.

> And for both solutions Koschei would need to get
> provenpackager-like priviledges to be able to bump the release. Regarding remote
> interface - there is none, but I can make it as soon as it's needed. I didn't
> have use case for it yet.

Great to hear it. Thank you.

Kind regards,

-- Jan Pacner