On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 12:58 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41 PM Jeremy Cline
<jeremy(a)jcline.org>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This should come as no surprise to those who have been following
> the
> kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there
> are
> some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in
> the
> next couple of weeks.
>
> For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist-
> git,
> this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be
> easier.
>
> We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in
> the
> dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts
> to
> turn the source tree into something that can be automatically
> checked
> into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the
> dist-
> git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
>
> The git repository is currently hosted at
>
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/. Documentation (still
> very
> rough) for common tasks is at
>
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/wikis/home. There are a
> few
> outstanding merge requests to get the tree fully synced up with the
> current state of the dist-git repository, so if you decide to jump
> in
> and try things out, be aware things might not work.
This looks like it will completely remove the need for
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora.git
Is that correct? (Please let it be correct.)
Eventually, yes. To start with we're just going to do Rawhide this
way, but assuming things go well handling stable releases the same way
should be straight-forward.
josh
> As part of this, we're going to start bridging merge requests to
> this
> list as emailed patch series for those who prefer email, and turn
> any
> emailed patches to the list into merge requests, so the list is
> going
> to get quite a bit more traffic.
>
> Regards,
> Jeremy
>
>
>
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