On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:26:29 +0100 Julian Sikorski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list, > > I have been co-maintaining goffice and gnumeric for a while now. It > has been unfortunately becoming increasingly difficult over time, > given the fact that the two often need to be chain-built and tools > needed to do this have been slowly becoming more time-consuming to > use, in addition to some other issues. For example: > > - requesting buildroot overrides via commandline has been broken for > over than a year now and will not be fixed until f26 [1]. Web > interface is much slower. Well, there's some other options there in the last comment. > - chain-building has been broken for a month [2] so now requesting > each build in the chain separately is required I just did a ping on that issue. Hopefully we can get a new release out with the fix soon. I know rdieter made a local patch he's been using fine, so this really should not be that hard to push out. > - fedpkg now needs authentication via kerberos instead of ssh key [3], > which means that I now have to run kinit before starting a packaging > session, in addition to firing up keepass and entering the password Yeah. This will hopefully be helped by the upcoming kerberos cache change. > - koji login via certificate is no longer possible which makes it > harder to track failed builds We plan to make koji handle GSSAPI and log you in automatically if you have a kerberos ticket. I'll try and find out the status of that work. > While I am sure these changes are done with an aim of improving things > in the long run, the churn caused by them is really starting to take a > toll on my motivation. Could something be done to mitigate the > inconveniences caused by the infrastructure upgrades? We can try. kevin
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