RFC : in-development flag for packages

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 14:16 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 20:53 +0200, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 08:41 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 17:03 +0200, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 14:39 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > > > > On 2015-02-22, Yanko Kaneti <yaneti at declera.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Introduce an "in-development" flag for packages in Fedora.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > I like the confession that no in-developemnt code gets
> > > > > magically stable after
> > > > > half year of sitting in the Rawhide.
> > > > 
> > > > Indeed that was part of my thinking.
> > > > 
> > > > In-development packaging that might never reach maturity is a 
> > > > fact of life and the idea was for us to embrace it and manage 
> > > > it in the same place where we manage everything else.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the feedback.
> > > 
> > > I'm somewhat of the opinion that code should never land in 
> > > Rawhide that isn't stable upstream (or expected to be within 
> > > that Fedora release cycle). Code that isn't ready and won't be 
> > > ready in time belongs in a COPR.
> > 
> > I understand the sentiment, but I think it does not benefit the 
> > project when it comes to Fedora's perception as a leading
> > development platform.
> > 
> > Rawhide especially I'd love to see being adopted as a hotbed for 
> > early prototype and integration work (think: build me a package 
> > after every upstream commit, in the extreme), even for software 
> > that eventually might not make it.
> > 
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > 
> > 
> Rawhide should absolutely be a site for early integration work, but 
> it really should NOT be a place to dump nightly builds. There are 
> many people that actually use Rawhide as a day-to-day system and 
> treating it like a dumping ground is a really bad idea.

Sure,  I am one of those people, and building often and having it work 
are not mutually exclusive. Especially if we can grow some minimal 
continuous integration testing for the core platform.
And for the leaf packages, those really should be readily downgradable.

But here I am again asking for something to be done by someone else 
preferably, for which I apologize. Just spitballing my rawhide 
dreams...

> The purpose of COPR and upstream build is to do that prototyping 
> work, in my opinion. The purpose of Rawhide is to do the integration 
> of something believed to be ready for the next Fedora.