Hi,
Imagine situation that somebody is working on KDE rebase and me on
libgit2 rebase. Both involve rebuilding/updating some package, let's
say kf5-ktexteditor.
We both work in different side tags, in KDE rebase kf5-ktexteditor
gets updated to a new version. In libgit2 rebase, old version gets
rebuilt.
Once any of us finished with side tag, we merge it. Let's say that was
KDE rebase. That means, new kf5-ktexteditor is merged into the rawhide
which is built against old libgit2. Then I finish with libgit2 things
and we merge it into the rawhide.. That means it just downgrades
kf5-ktexteditor version because koji looks at the build time and not
the NVR. And even if it did, that would mean I have to manually go and
rebuild all packages which are handled in multiple side tags.
Do you think that scales?
So I believe at one point we only allowed one side tag at a time, but people complained that most of the time we were wasting packagers time waiting for someone else to get stuff done. There was an idea about trying to solve conflicts but that was seen as too much time to solve and too much bureaucracy to live with. Instead we assumed that these would happen and that packagers would work things out between themselves.
So no it doesn’t scale. The various solutions to make it scale are not written and will not be written in any near time as they will need some sort of project, some amount of resources added and a backlog of more critical work done first. Until then packagers need to realize that there are going to be build conflicts every now and then and factor in that they will have to work out between themselves how to solve them.
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