Revisiting non-rawhide chain-builds

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On Wed 10 Apr 2013 01:19:49 PM EDT, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 09:08 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> Historically, chain-builds were only supported in the Rawhide
>> branch because it was the only location that could auto-generate
>> the buildroot.
>> 
>> However, the modern version of bodhi now supports allowing users
>> to submit individual packages to the buildroot of any branch.
>> 
>> It would make life easier for a great many people if 'fedpkg 
>> chain-build' could gain the capability to automatically submit 
>> buildroot overrides on non-Rawhide branches.
>> 
>> I've opened an RFE on the upstream fedpkg project here: 
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedpkg/ticket/6
>> 
>> This might make an excellent and highly-useful GSoC project.
>> I've added it to the Summer Coding Ideas Page[1]. I'm not the
>> best person to act as mentor, since I don't know the code, but
>> I'd be okay acting as a backup mentor.
> 
> I know the code quite well, as I implemented a fedpkg-like tool
> (also based on pyrpkg) for $dayjob, and I had sent a few patches to
> Jesse. (which reminds me I still have a couple that I never sent
> back!)
> 
> I also know the Bodhi code intimately, again because I deployed it
> at $dayjob (and that implied quite extensive patching to remove
> hardcoded Fedora assumptions).
> 
> However, I don't have commit permissions to fedpkg (but I do have
> them for Bodhi), and as such I wouldn't be able to ensure the
> changes actually get merged.
> 
> So I probably wouldn't be the best person to mentor either, but if
> a student is interested and nobody else wants to, I could
> eventually act as one.
> 
> 

Frankly, you sound like the perfect person to be the primary mentor
for this effort, if you're willing. Can I add you to the proposal page?
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