On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:35:44AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:31 AM Miro HronĨok
<mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 25. 01. 21 16:19, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > I'm fully in favor of this and I'd really like to see us add some
> > degree of CI gating to support it.
>
> Note that unfortunately CI gating happens too late. It has no capability to
> block commits that fail to build, because it only tests successful builds and
> because it only tests already pushed changes. CI on Pull Requests can solve
> this, but many packagers seem to be very much agianst the idea of sending PRs to
> packages they maintain themselves :(
>
There are still ways around this; we could disallow direct pushes to
release branches.
Please don't do this, the PR workflow is annoyingly complex and next
to impossible to automate, compared to doing a simple git push.
Rich.
Yes, there are always going to be people who reject any new approach
we might take, but we should carefully consider whether "some/many
packagers are mildly annoyed" exceeds the potential gains inherent in
fewer broken builds and composes.
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