On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 15:24 Cole Robinson <crobi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Welcome Eduardo :) > > On 07/19/2018 06:47 AM, Eduardo Otubo wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My name is Eduardo and I'll be helping co-maintaining the cloud-init > package for Fedora. > > > > I've been working with QEMU/KVM since 2011. In 2013 I became the > maintainer of > > the seccomp subsystem in QEMU. In mid-2017 I joined Red Hat to support > RHEL in > > different clouds (Hyper-V, Xen, etc) and supporting cloud-init on RHEL > is now > > part of my job as well. > > > > I've been reading the "Join the package collection maintainers" wiki > page and > > it's been good so far :) except for a tiny question about the process for > > cloud-init package: How exactly do we decide things like rebase from > upstream or > > release dates? I didn't find any specific cloud-init mailing list > here[0], or > > anything relevant on the #cloud-init channel at Freenode. > > > > Usually there isn't any policy around how/when specific packages are > updated in Fedora, it's up to the discretion of the maintainers. Some > people push latest versions of their packages to every stable Fedora > branch, others only rebase in rawhide, and everything in between. So I > suggest talking to your co-maintainers about how they've done things, > and go from there > There *IS* policy for how updates to rawhide and stable releases should be handled. They are available on the aptly named "Updates Policy" wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy Fabio > The main thing I'd think is to not rebase cloud-init too late into a > Fedora dev cycle, so there's plenty of time to ensure the cloud images > are in good shape (I don't know if the cloud images are ever regenerated > after Fedora GA release). But I know very little about cloud-init... > maybe it releases all the time, maybe it doesn't regress much, etc. > > - Cole > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLS2XTKAHFJI7WTKZQLFUGNX7WOH33LT/ >
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