On 19/02/15 10:07, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:38:09AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 19/02/15 01:27, norwoods wrote: >>> Merge Open Build Service (http://openbuildservice.org/) and Koji build >>> system >> >> thats a very interesting idea. >> >> At the base layers, a build is really just converting sources into >> binary. or collecting binary bits and making an ISO or a Live Media or a >> Cloud image or a Container etc; but the actual convertion side of things >> is all finite. >> >> So with that in mind, the big difference in OpenBuildService and Koji is >> that Koji perhaps has a more focused approach to letting teams >> contribute, in their own pace and space, towards ( one or more ) product >> / goals. Whereas Openbuildservice just churns sources to binaries in an >> environment for user facing ( and much smaller ) task sets. >> >> A merge then might be a case of openbuildservice using koji at the >> backend and retaining its web UI ? > > IIRC there is also a big concern on build reproducibility on koji which I'm not > sure is approached in the same way by OBS. > > While the idea is interesting, I have two remarks: > a) we should get Mike involved in this > b) does this fit in the scope of a GSoC? Sounds to me that this will require > more than 3 months of work, in which case we would probably want to reduce the > scope of the proposal to 1) something doable and 2) something useful (for which > we clearly need Mike's input) I agree on both counts, what I was hoping to try and see was if we can start a convo on what the real wins might be, then break that up into smaller tasks ( ideally, deliverable on their own ) Also, its worth noting that coprs can help with some of the drive-by packaging/building things as well. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc