#5894: git branches for SCL packages

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#5894: git branches for SCL packages
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  Reporter:  mmaslano         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Alpha  |  Component:  git
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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Comment (by toshio):

 Past few days I've had a comaintainer on a package committing SCL work
 destined for Copr into a "nightly" branch of the package.  I've been
 getting commit email about it.  I've told him to stop but he's said he
 wants it there because it's destined for copr.  I think that having SCL
 packages in the same repo, just in a different branch is problematic for
 people mentally.  They're thinking of the SCL conceptually as the same
 package when it needs to be thought of as a different package.  Taking
 mingw packages as a the model again:

 * the primary package maintainers do not see commit email for changes to
 the mingw package or bug reports.  That's not the case if we only use a
 separate branch.
 * the mingw package maintainer can opt-in or opt-out of getting commit and
 bug mail about the primary package if the packages have diverged.  That's
 not the case here. (And should be more important here as the version of an
 SCL stays behind the main package whereas the mingw package attempts to
 keep up with the version in Fedora).
 * mingw packages that have not been approved plainly do not belong in the
 Fedora git repo as they're an unreviewed package.  That's apparently not
 clear with SCL as branch.

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