major change release management for former Extras packages? (was Re: Merge Status - Building available)

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 05:27 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> >>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer  writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> What if I have some packages meeting the A) status above, and I
> >> don't care that deeply whether they're in the F7 release but sure
> >> do want them in F7 repositories as soon as possible after the
> >> release; do I need to do something?
> 
> JB> Yes, you need to email rel-eng with a request.  There is no
> JB> difference between "f7 release" and "in the f7 repo" in regards to
> JB> Koji.  The f7-final tag encompasses both at this point.
> 
> JB> (And arguably, there is no difference between "f7 release" and "in
> JB> the f7 repo" at all given that the repos can be enabled and
> JB> installed from at any point.)
> 
> So this seems to imply that all updates to (formerly-Extras) packages
> for F7 (either before or after the release) must go through rel-eng?
> 
> If so, this is going to introduce a new bottleneck that hasn't existed
> up to this point for Extras packages, currently we just build and
> they're released in the next push.  For the point of view out non-Red
> Hat contributors, it's a major change in the way packages are managed.
> 
> I can't find any FAQ on the wiki (or definitive discussions on this
> mailing list) where policy has been established and about how this is
> supposed to work (other than perhaps mentioning it in discussions in
> FESCo meetings).  This is something needs to be front and centre right
> now before F7 goes live.

We've been pointing people to this page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy

for a while now...

Then there's this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00068.html

Which also says you need to email rel-eng to get stuff into the f7-final
tag.  Likely the reason Extras stuff isn't highlighted is because there
is no Extras in the merged world.  All packages follow the same process.

josh