----- Original Message -----
> Hi folks,
>
> This should come as no surprise to those who have been following
> the
> kernel list and/or saw Laura's Flock talk last summer, but there
> are
> some changes to the way the Fedora kernel is maintained coming in
> the
> next couple of weeks.
>
> For those folks who aren't committing directly to the kernel dist-
> git,
> this change won't really impact you, although contributing might be
> easier.
>
> We're planning to switch from maintaining the kernel directly in
> the
> dist-git to using a kernel source tree along with a set of scripts
> to
> turn the source tree into something that can be automatically
> checked
> into the dist-git. This means anything committed directly to the
> dist-
> git repository will get overwritten on the next update.
>
> The git repository is currently hosted at
>
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/. Documentation (still
> very
> rough) for common tasks is at
>
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/wikis/home. There are a
> few
> outstanding merge requests to get the tree fully synced up with the
> current state of the dist-git repository, so if you decide to jump
> in
> and try things out, be aware things might not work.
>
> As part of this, we're going to start bridging merge requests to
> this
> list as emailed patch series for those who prefer email, and turn
> any
> emailed patches to the list into merge requests, so the list is
> going
> to get quite a bit more traffic.
How do we ensure that this repo on
gitlab.com is as trustworthy as
the
tarballs extracted from upstream
kernel.org repos?
The git tags are still signed by Linus. Does that cover your concerns?
- Jeremy