Plan for tomorrows (20080306) FESCO meeting

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:54:48PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> >On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:54 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:49:15AM -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>Please find below the list of topics that are likely to come up in the
> >>>next FESCo meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday at 18:00 UTC
> >>>in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org:
> >>In the buildsys call last week, Jesse said he would bring a proposal
> >>to make tags in CVS "immutable", which the 'correspondingsource'
> >>project on fedorahosted will require.
> >
> >
> >OOps, yes, thanks for bringing this up again.  Please add it to the
> >schedule.
> >
> 
> Ugh,
> 
> Can we _not_ do this please, sometimes one forgets to "cvs add 
> foo-bar.patch", being able to then just add it once the srpm build has 
> failed in koji and do a make force-tag is _very_ convenient. Is there 
> actual proof that people are using force-tag for other reasons then to fix 
> build errors. If there is no proof for this then why immediately use the 
> immutable big hammer, for a theoretical problem?

I didn't want the big hammer, but the buildsys folks don't want Koji
to be able to write into CVS at all, such as to create a new tag, and
there's no way to make a koji-created tag immutable, while letting the
other tags be mutable, AFAIK.

Yes, it's a theoretical problem, but if we hit it, it becomes a legal
problem.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux