major change release management for former Extras packages?

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 07 May 2007 06:12:46 Alex Lancaster wrote:
> So many things are currently not specified, e.g.:
>
> 1) What exactly are "tags", "tasks" and "builds" in the new koji build
>    system?  How do they relate to each other?  What does it mean for
>    tags to "inherit" from each other (I sort of figured out some of
>    this stuff by hunting around on the koji site, but that shouldn't
>    be necessary).
>
> 2) Who decides and/or approves rel-eng requests?  How long will they
>    take to process?  What criteria do they use?
>
> Much of this is probably obvious to those inside or closely associated
> with Red Hat and who are constantly on IRC or following threads in
> fedora-devel-list, fedora-packaging (in addition to
> fedora-maintainers) because your used to the rel-eng system because
> it's been used with Core.
>
> To the outside packager/contributor who isn't being paid to monitor
> all this traffic, however, all this tacit knowledge needs to be made
> *much* more explicit because it's a world of difference to how Extras
> has worked up until now and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is
> somewhat confused by the new processes.

These things are not posted as we're not done merging yet.  Please have some 
patience.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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