Hi, I've been debating this all week and decided it's probably better as a community decision than just my own.
Problem: The current source rpm for origin is generated using tito on the origin git repo. The biggest problem with this is the tarball is generated on the fly and sortof encorporated into the spec file. That makes it hard for others to duplicate the src.rpm and/or make patches for it.
If I were an outsider (not on the openshift team) and making an rpm for Fedora/EPEL, I wouldn't do this. I would grab the released tarball from Github and build my spec file around that.
Solution 1: Keep things the same. Do others really care that they can't duplicate the src.rpm without tito, as long as they can recompile it?
Solution 2: Create a origin spec file that uses the tarball from Github. I've already done this. It works quite well. But it does involve some manual spec file editing.
Troy p.s. I am totally fine either way. The only reason I've been debating this is because I keep having issues with tito making the whole src.rpm.