On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 17:37 Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr> wrote:

Good Morning Everyone,

This is not a new idea, it has been presented at flock last year and spoken
about on this very list this fall, so I'd like to push it a little further.

Do we want to drop release and changelog from our spec file?
If we do, how would this work?

The release field would need to be set by koji ignoring whatever is in the spec
file. How do we want to do this?
  - Based on dates?
  - Using an always increasing integer?
  - Using the number of successful builds since the last time the version field changed?
  - Another idea?

What about "number of commits since last version update" (possibly tagged in git)? That should encompass the possibilities you listed above, is well-defined, and should be most like the current behavior.

That won't work. This assumes that all subpackages have the same version as the main package, but that might not be true (it is definitely not true for Ruby neither for Perl AFAIK). If nothing else, there must be way to override/hint the automation (unless the automation is smart enough to detect such scenarios, which would be cool).

Vít