182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Mon, 11 May 2009 13:12:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote

> The basic idea of buildroot protection is good. What doesn't work
> well so far, however, is how the buildroot overrides are executed. A
> packager submits a releng ticket, the request is accepted, the tag
> gets created, the incompatible package enters the buildroots, no
> announcement is sent, danger lies ahead. As pointed out elsewhere in
> this thread, this has hit qtorrent (rb_libtorrent, springlobby) for
> Fedora 11. The process would be much better if (a) all buildroot
> overrides would be announced in a prominent place and (b) marking
> incompatible packages "stable" in order to skip the buildroot
> override procedure would be forbidden.

Could koji provide 'private' buildroots, which are created for a limited
time and in which the override packages are imported? Like this:

a) Packager builds new package of libfoo
b) Packager request buildroot override for libfoo
c) a private koji tag is created which includes the new libfoo and which
   stays valid for a specific time (say, a couple of days, or until the
   packager dismisses it)
d) Packager builds appfoo in the private tag

Noone except the packager would be affected by the override, until
libfoo hits the proper repos.