#5894: git branches for SCL packages

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#5894: git branches for SCL packages
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  Reporter:  mmaslano         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Alpha  |  Component:  git
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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Comment (by mmaslano):

 Replying to [comment:38 toshio]:
 > Past few days I've had a comaintainer on a package committing SCL work
 destined for Copr into a "nightly" branch of the package.  I've been
 getting commit email about it.  I've told him to stop but he's said he
 wants it there because it's destined for copr.  I think that having SCL
 packages in the same repo, just in a different branch is problematic for
 people mentally.  They're thinking of the SCL conceptually as the same
 package when it needs to be thought of as a different package.  Taking
 mingw packages as a the model again:
 >
 > * the primary package maintainers do not see commit email for changes to
 the mingw package or bug reports.  That's not the case if we only use a
 separate branch.
 > * the mingw package maintainer can opt-in or opt-out of getting commit
 and bug mail about the primary package if the packages have diverged.
 That's not the case here. (And should be more important here as the
 version of an SCL stays behind the main package whereas the mingw package
 attempts to keep up with the version in Fedora).
 > * mingw packages that have not been approved plainly do not belong in
 the Fedora git repo as they're an unreviewed package.  That's apparently
 not clear with SCL as branch.

 Could you point me to the package and commiter? I'm aware of commits for
 python nightly stuff, but that's not related to SCL at all.

 I've seen many changes in specfiles, which I didn't like, it's not
 happening only with SCL. People just have different views about content of
 specs.

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