On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 13:04 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> So, I have a probably-controversial idea for a follow-up on this.
>>
>> Even after this sweep, we have 141 proven packagers. That's a lot of
>> people who can build almost anything in Fedora.
>>
>> It should be possible to check whether a provenpackager has built any
>> package they don't have direct commit rights to in the last X months.
>>
>> Should we construct that search, run it, and propose removing
>> provenpackager status from folks who aren't using it, to cut down that
>> set?
> That policy was setup before this one for packagers. ;)
>
>
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Provenpackager_policy/
Look, I'm getting old, okay? ;)
But yeah, looking at that, one 'loophole' is it doesn't check if
they're actually needing *proven* packager powers - just packager
powers. If a proven packager is only building packages they have
explicit commit rights to, they may not need proven packager powers any
more?
I sometimes use my PP powers to fix build tagging issues / updates flows
caused by Bodhi glitches, but I (very) rarely use them to build someone
else package.
What I mean is whatever test is done to check if someone needs to be PP
doesn't assume the power is just used to build packages.
Mattia