[Fedora-packaging] Documentation on request special rawhide tags

[Jesse Keating]

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On 6/25/10 11:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:58:49 -0700,
>   Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/25/10 10:20 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> I went looking for documentation on when and how to request special
>>> dist tags for rawhide to make soname bumps less disruptive and didn't
>>> find any official process documentation for packagers.
>>>
>>> I ended up just filing a releng ticket, which will probably do what I want.
>>> But I think there is a problem. Either the documention is harder to find
>>> than it should be or there isn't any. I did find something for tagging in
>>> new rawhide packages, but that isn't quite the same thing. My knowledge
>>> that you can make such requests came from email messages I have seen on
>>> the mailing lists.
>>
>> I don't believe there is any documentation.  Feel free to start some (:
> 
> Filing a ticket with releng is the correct action needed to trigger having
> it happen?
> 
> I'll be wishy washy on when people should do this. That can be updated later.

Yes, a releng ticket is the correct way to get the process started.
Releng may then have a conversation with you regarding your need, but
the ticket is the initial contact point.
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Jesse Keating
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