Hello all,

You might have heard some rumours that the Packit team is working on automation for downstream activities you need to do when working on a new release of a package to Fedora. And the rumours are true – I am really pleased to announce that Packit now covers the whole workflow from upstream development to Bodhi update. We try to reduce the human interaction with the system to places where it’s needed and wanted and do all the mundane work and busy waiting for you.

If you want to take a look at how it works, here is a blog post showing this on one of our packages: https://packit.dev/posts/downstream-automation

We have used the automation ourselves for a couple of weeks for our packages[0] and already got bored of the releases. It’s too simple.

And if you haven’t heard about Packit at all, check our web page: https://packit.dev

We know that people can have different needs, so let us know what you think about it. And if you hit any issues or have any suggestions, get in touch with us – ideally, in #packit:fedora.im on Fedora Matrix or in form of an upstream issue created here: https://github.com/packit/packit-service/issues/new

On behalf of the Packit team,