On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 10:36:04AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, 2026-06-28 at 15:21 -0500, Maxwell G wrote: > While this can be preferable to some more technical Fedora > contributors, to me it kinda looks like trying very hard to avoid > making a simple web app instead, that takes the content of a couple > fields, validates the content of them if possible (change type set, > owner FAS account exists, Fedora version set, etc.) and generates > outputs as needed (plaintext email summary, static web page, etc.).
The problem with a "simple web app" is that while the initial job may look simple, and impl may even be simple, we then have an ongoing never ending burden to support this web app. We've got a long (and disappointing) track record in Fedora of building things and then being unable to support them sufficiently well due to lack of resources, especially when the original author moves on. We can't even get sufficient resources to support & develop critical infrastructure such as our accounts system (see recent discussions about its sub-optimal support for 2FA that no one has had time to improve for years). IMHO it is more sustainable to use off-the-shelf software even if the solution has worse usability, unless the payoff from a custom solution is exceedingly valuable. Beyond using an off-the-shelf solution, it is also important to cnsider what existing sofware we have deployed that could do the job sufficiently well. Again, to minimize the number of different services that we have to support. Deploying and maintaining a code forge is a non-trivial undertaking, so it makes alot of sense to maximise its benefits to the project by considering whether it can be put into service for other use cases we have, such as the Change proposal workflow. IOW, while I agree with your concerns about usability to some degree, Fedora has to be realistic about what we can do with our limited resources for infrasturucture & apps. I can't see it being a good use of resources to build & maintain a custom app for this. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
