On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:12 AM kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:50:39PM -0300, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote: > > > > On 21/8/20 19:06, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > > C) Drop playground. Say it was an interesting experiment and we > > > learned stuff, but shut it down. > > > (and clean up the package.cfg files as part of shutting it down) > > > > > > D) > > > 1 - Manual builds only. No package.cfg files. No automatic builds. > > > 2 - Assume playground depends on epel8. > > > 3 - Use CentOS 8 Stream to build against. > > > > > > I am leaning towards option D. > > > We've already got all the playground infrastructure setup. I don't > > > want to waste that. So, although I said option C in the meeting, that > > > doesn't mean I want it, I was just stating it was an option. > > I like option D too, looks like a more polished version of option B > > Do we have any data here? > > Are stream changes breaking epel packages so that they need rebuilds > often? > > It will mean that if someone wants to use playground to test some large > change in epel, they will have to find people who also enable stream to > test it most likely? > > Do we know that many/any people are consuming stream all the time? > > We also don't have much way to say 'if you enable epel8-playground you > have to enable stream repos also'. > > I guess I don't think the yummy to trouble ratio is good enough here to > justify the trouble of enabling stream. Can you expand on why this is > good/what it gets us? >
Pros for building against stream: - We would have a way to test EPEL packages that matter against the not yet released RHEL version. -- How often would this matter? -- It's hard to say. There might not be a single EPEL package needing this for the entire RHEL 8.3 release. -- I know for the 8.2 release, I would have liked it so I would have had a place to let others test my updated KDE. --- But I found a work around, so I didn't have to have it. Cons for building against stream: - I think you've hit on a big thing. For those wanting a major change, but don't care about stream, then playground becomes useless. -- So this cuts down on the usefulness of playground. Packagers who want a major change in their package, and are working on stream. - HERE IS THE BIGGEST CON AGAINST USING STREAM -- CentOS Stream is only going to be based on RHEL8 until RHEL9 comes out. At some point after that, it switches to being based off RHEL9. --- This means that infrastructure is going to have to switch everything back to being built off RHEL. --- We will have to re-document things. --- More confusion if we had go the CentOS Stream route. Troy _______________________________________________ epel-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]
