f19 mass branching

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 13.3.2013 10:09, Peter Robinson napsal(a):
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Dne 12.3.2013 16:30, Dennis Gilmore napsal(a):
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> F19 has been branched, please be sure to do a git pull --rebase to pick
>>> up the new branch, additionally rawhide/f20 has had inheritance cut off
>>> from previous releases,  so this means that anything you do for f19 you
>>> also have to do in the master branch and do a build there.
>>
>> Why was it cut off so soon actually? The reason for disabling inheritance
>> was due to Bodhi updates, which might not go stable, if I remember
>> correctly, but Bodhi is not in action yet I suppose, so the cut of was too
>> soon IMO. Could you please reconsider it? Thank you.
> No, branching is the correct time to do it. Mandated tagging through
> koji and inheritance are completely unrelated. At the moment koji tags
> the packages straight into f19 rather than tagging to
> f19-updates-candidate and having bodhi deal with the tagging.
>
> Inheritance only affect whether something is built in f19 is inherited
> through to rawhide. There was a discussion some time ago about this so
> presumably this change was either a decision by release engineering or
> FESCo.

I am afraid that the discussion was more generic, i.e. "Rawhide should 
not inherit from branched Fedora" and since I remember the main reason 
for breaking inheritance was Bodhi and Bodhi is not yet in a game, it 
should be clarified and adjusted.

Vít
>
> Peter