Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

[Vít Ondruch]

So what is the workflow, how you update to the latest upstream? Or how
you apply custom patch?

Vít

Dne 04. 05. 20 v 17:05 Tomas Tomecek napsal(a):
> Let’s talk about dist-git, as a place where we work. For us,
> packagers, it’s a well-known place. Yet for newcomers, it may take a
> while to learn all the details. Even though we operate with projects
> in a dist-git repository, the layout doesn’t resemble the respective
> upstream project.
>
> There is a multitude of tasks we tend to perform in a dist-git repo:
> Bumping a release field for sake of a rebuild.
> Updating to the latest upstream release.
> Resolving CVEs.
> Fixing bugs by…
> Changing a spec file.
> Pulling a commit from upstream.
> Or even backporting a commit.
> And more...
>
> For some tasks, the workflow is just fine and pretty straightforward.
> But for the other, it’s very gruesome - the moment you need to touch
> patch files, the horror comes in. The fact that we operate with patch
> files, in a git repository, is just mind-boggling to me.
>
> Luckily, we have tooling which supports the repository layout -
> `fedpkg prep`, `srpm` or `mockbuild` are such handy commands - you can
> easily inspect the source tree or make sure your local change builds.
>
> Where am I getting with this?
>
> Over the years there have been multiple tools created to improve the
> development experience:
> rdopkg [r], rpkg-util [ru], tito [t] and probably much much more (e.g.
> the way Fedora kernel developers work on kernel [k]).
>
> In the packit project, we work in source-git repositories. These are
> pretty much upstream repositories combined with Fedora downstream
> packaging files. An example: I recently added a project called nyancat
> [n] to Fedora. I have worked [w] on packaging the project in the
> GitHub repo and then just pushed the changes to dist-git using packit
> tooling. These source-git repositories can live anywhere: we have
> support for GitHub right now and are working on supporting pagure.
>
> Would there be an interest within the community, as opt-in, to have
> such source-git repositories created for respective dist-git
> repositories? The idea is that you would work in the source-git repo
> and then let packit handle synchronization with a respective dist-git
> repo. Our aim is to provide the contribution experience you have in
> GitHub when working on your packages. Dist-git would still be the
> authoritative source and a place where official builds are done - the
> source-git repo would work as a way to collaborate. We also don’t have
> plans right now to integrate packit into fedpkg.
>
> The main reason I am sending this is to gather feedback from all of
> you whether there is an interest in such a workflow. We don’t have
> concrete plans for Fedora right now but based on your feedback we
> could.
>
> [r] https://github.com/softwarefactory-project/rdopkg
> [ru] https://pagure.io/rpkg-util
> [t] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/tito
> [k] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
> [n] https://github.com/TomasTomecek/nyancat
> [w] https://github.com/TomasTomecek/nyancat/pull/2
>
> Cheers,
> Tomas
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