[fab] Re: "community maintainers working on core" dilemma

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 15:17, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> But if we had a system that made it possible for anyone to generate a
>> build on any architecture, wouldn't it make it easier to enable those
>> extra arches without actually holding our entire tree hostage?  Plus, we
>> can actually parallelize the effort to fix architecture bustage.
> 
> The better question is can we break the direct pipeline from Fedora builds to 
> RHEL.  If we could (and we did for FC5 updates), then we just don't send our 
> builds to those arches.  This is one of the things to solve if we move Core 
> out to the outside world.  We're not going to put s390s out in the Fedora 
> infrastructure...

Yeah, that's an interesting question.  And one that's key to rebuilding 
Fedora into a true community project.  RHEL as a Fedora byproduct, not 
RHEL is Fedora.  Not an entirely apt metaphor, but I think you know what 
I mean.

--Chris