Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-24 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:25:31PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/23/2013 11:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: you claimed more than once that they are a less woth part of the community because they get paid for their work and are not completly free in their doings Yes not because they

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-24 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 22.7.2013 18:29, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson napsal(a): As for cruft in the spec files, why not bring a proposal to the FPC to update the packaging guidelines stating that Fedora spec files must not contain RHEL/EPEL macros? Then the git branches would be maintained separately and the spec files

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 07/22/2013 03:53 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: But it's not an objective of Fedora to have long-term-stable releases suitable for running servers! Says who? That is because Fedora has a 13 month support policy

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 02:36 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 07/22/2013 03:53 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: But it's not an objective of Fedora to have long-term-stable releases suitable for running servers! Says who? That is because Fedora has a 13

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:37:57PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Not the current one no but if people are willing to maintain a longer release cycle there is nothing preventing them from doing so. The only thing is that it's _really hard_ and almost certainly requires full-time workers to

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 02:59 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:37:57PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Not the current one no but if people are willing to maintain a longer release cycle there is nothing preventing them from doing so. The only thing is that it's _really hard_ and

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:51:43PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: If people are interested in stepping up to make this happen and have a long-term sustainable plan, that would be awesome. Come to think of it Red Hat itself is not willing to invest in extended release cycle of Fedora even

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 05:13 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:51:43PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: If people are interested in stepping up to make this happen and have a long-term sustainable plan, that would be awesome. Come to think of it Red Hat itself is not willing to

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.07.2013 19:25, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: And fundamentally again I think you are wrong we are better off in the long term standing on our own two feets then working with downstream or be dependant on RH on way or another or some other sponsor. So we are at impasse regarding

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 05:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.07.2013 19:25, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: And fundamentally again I think you are wrong we are better off in the long term standing on our own two feets then working with downstream or be dependant on RH on way or another or some other

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.07.2013 20:57, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 07/23/2013 05:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.07.2013 19:25, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: And fundamentally again I think you are wrong we are better off in the long term standing on our own two feets then working with downstream

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 07:11 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so you have no plan how large the positive impact is but you attack Redhat and employees in a subtle way wherever you can? For the first you do realize that Red Hat is a corporate and my view of corporate involvement is the same in open source

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.07.2013 22:07, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 07/23/2013 07:11 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so you have no plan how large the positive impact is but you attack Redhat and employees in a subtle way wherever you can? For the first you do realize that Red Hat is a corporate and my view of

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 08:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: and from here is clear that you*blindly* shoot around at Redhat*blindly and nothing else* This was everything but blindly shot I'm perfectly well aware that he's a Red Hat employee I even sent him email at his Red Hat address last week. If you

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/2013 04:07 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/23/2013 07:11 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so you have no plan how large the positive impact is but you attack Redhat and employees in a subtle way wherever you can? For the first you do

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 09:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: For the record, I'd like you to have a look at basically any community-reported bug in the 'sssd' component of BZ or community-submitted patches on the sssd-devel list. That's a project comprised nearly entirely of Red Hat employees.[1] You may

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 11:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: you claimed more than once that they are a less woth part of the community because they get paid for their work and are not completly free in their doings Yes not because they work for Red Hat but because I value people dedicating and invest their

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.07.2013 00:46, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 07/23/2013 09:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: For the record, I'd like you to have a look at basically any community-reported bug in the 'sssd' component of BZ or community-submitted patches on the sssd-devel list. That's a project

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.07.2013 22:32, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 07/23/2013 08:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: and from here is clear that you *blindly* shoot around at Redhat *blindly and nothing else* This was everything but blindly shot I'm perfectly well aware that he's a Red Hat employee I even

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Yes not because they work for Red Hat but because I value people dedicating and invest their free time to the project more then I value people that get paid to work on Fedora and are doing so on corporate time How do you

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 23, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The fact is we live in a rather thankless community and that is something we might be better at something that Picard would indeed want us to do. Thank you for inviting me, with your foul attitude, to be

EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:28:52PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What better time to move epel out of Fedora since is really not related to Fedora et all but is strictly for downstream distribution based upon us to use ( like RHEL and it's clones ) I'm not sure what you think needs to

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 03:38 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 02:52 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:28:52PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What better time to move epel out of Fedora since is

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 02:52 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:28:52PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What better time to move epel out of Fedora since is really not related to Fedora et all but is strictly for downstream distribution based upon us to use ( like RHEL and it's

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 11:58 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Our Fedora infrastructure team should be using Fedora it's an disgrace to the community for them not doing so. That's something else that this policy could potentially addresses, frankly. The

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:08:32 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 11:58 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Our Fedora infrastructure team should be using Fedora it's an disgrace to the community for them not doing

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:08:32 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 11:58 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Our Fedora infrastructure team should be using Fedora it's an disgrace

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:58:01PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 03:38 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Packaging Guidelines themselves are written for Fedora. We note where EPEL/RHEL need something different where applicable. Aha that's why nonsenses like the allowance for

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 12:36 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:08:32 -0400 Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 11:58

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 04:41 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: They chose to use a_downstream_ distribution. RHEL*is* Fedora, it's just a Fedora that's been hardened and held to a certain level of ABI/API compatibility. Which is my point exactly instead of helping increasing the overall quality of Fedora

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:58:01PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 03:38 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Packaging Guidelines themselves are written for Fedora. We note where EPEL/RHEL need something different where applicable. Aha

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:08:32PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: As for cruft in the spec files, why not bring a proposal to the FPC to update the packaging guidelines stating that Fedora spec files must not contain RHEL/EPEL macros? Then the git branches would be maintained separately and

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 04:08 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2013 11:58 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Our Fedora infrastructure team should be using Fedora it's an disgrace to the community for them not doing so. That's something else that this

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:47:12PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This was actually not the rationale. The rationale was that it wasn't harmful to Fedora and so if individual maintainers felt that it was something that they wanted to ship

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Eric Smith
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:41 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: They chose to use a _downstream_ distribution. RHEL *is* Fedora, it's just a Fedora that's been hardened and held to a certain level of ABI/API compatibility.

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 02:52 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:28:52PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: What better time to move epel out of Fedora since is really not related to Fedora et all but is strictly

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 05:53 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:47:12PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This was actually not the rationale. The rationale was that it wasn't harmful to Fedora and so if individual maintainers felt

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:41 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: They chose to use a _downstream_ distribution. RHEL *is* Fedora, it's just a Fedora that's been hardened and held to a

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com said: On 07/22/2013 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:41 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: They chose to use a _downstream_ distribution. RHEL

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2013 05:53 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:47:12PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This was actually not the rationale. The

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 08:04 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com said: On 07/22/2013 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: No one in their right mind runs any rapid development

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/22/2013 08:17 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Well, I did what you asked and I don't know what you are getting at. So I suppose either your instructions were unclear or you just wanted me to see that the FPC subpackage guidelines work as designed. So you installed a sub package ( or simply

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 12:13 -0600, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/22/2013 04:41 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: They chose to use a _downstream_ distribution. RHEL *is* Fedora, it's just a Fedora that's been hardened

Re: EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile Fedora.next (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:13:25PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote: But it's not an objective of Fedora to have long-term-stable releases suitable for running servers! No one in their right mind runs any rapid development distribution (not just Fedora) on critical infrastructure. I'd like to qualify