Re: RFC: Simply the retirement procedure - trigger on dead.package

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:21:53PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  while cleaning up retired packages (which I did not yet finish), I came
>  up with an idea to simplify the retirement procedure to avoid
>  inconsistencies. With the help of fedmsg I would like to make it enough
>  wrt to koji and pkgdb to add a dead.package file to dist git to
>  retire a package. When this happens, an automated process will retire
>  the package in pkgdb and block the package in koji. This will make
>  it impossible to only dead.package or only retire a package in pkgdb.
>  
>  To avoid problems with lost messages from fedmsg, a regular cleanup job
>  can download a git checkout and check for any missed dead.package files.
>  
>  What are your opinions about this? I already checked with Dennis
>  Gilmore, he is ok with this.
>  
>  My plan is to  first setup a service that triggers the retirement in
>  pkgdb and when this seems to work ask Infrastructure do disable retiring
>  packages for regular users in pkgdb.
>   
Works for me -- depending on when this goes live, we might be making the
retirement change in pkgdb2 instead of pkgdb1.  (We're trying to get pkgdb2
live in January).  (And by we I mean pingou who is doing all of the hard
work on pkgdb2 ;-)

-Toshio