On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:41 PM Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote:
Petr, I should have probably stressed that our target is Fedora (or even all Red Hat operating systems). Yes, there are hundreds of distributions and we cannot solve their problems. We are open for collaboration though - we cannot drive changes in distributions which we don't know or use.
If you only target Fedora, then it means that the same amount of Fedora maintainers will maintain twofold amount of repositories. Does it indeed save work? What's the benefit of maintaining more repositories?
My personal expectation here would be that if I enabled source-git for my packages, I wouldn't want to touch dist-git and only work in the source-git repos. Yes, there would still be changes coming to dist-git, and I'd inspect those from source-git. I'd even ask contributors to use source-git for PR contributions if possible.
Therefore I assumed you had targeted more distribution to share and externilize the maintenance.
Maybe my problem is that I don't buy your argument that if Fedora dist-git looks as Github, then Fedora will attract new packagers.
As I said, it's a prototype and we'll see.
Thanks for your feedback, Tomas