In August, the CentOS Project and Fedora announced the intention to combine their dist-git sources, and since then Fabian Arrotin of CentOS and Patrick Uiterwijk of Fedora have worked to make that happen. Last week at the CERN dojo, they demonstrated this work, and today we’d like to welcome community testing of it. We’ll be keeping this content updated, so you'll be able to continue to track sources appropriately. You can help us by testing the new system, providing feedback, and contributing additional tooling to help improve the overall state of the project. Structure: Currently git.stg.centos.org and src.stg.fedoraproject.org are linked via RepoSpanner[1], and sharing common repositories. Packagers for the roughly 6700 common packages in both communities will see the additional branches.. For the Fedora community, there should be no changes required for the day to day operation of dist-git or packaging. CentOS community members will note that the platform change to pagure brings a variety of new features, including a new API[2] , a new UI, pull requests, and issue tracking. The current tooling for CentOS sources will continue to work (after updating to the staging server) and we plan to add support for tooling for centpkg, which would mirror the functionality found in fedpkg. In the coming weeks we'll be putting out documentation around the expected uses for pull requests, and the issue tracking features within pagure, as we don't intend it to replace bugs.centos.org. Permissions and ownership: There are protections enabled to prevent either community from accidentally overwriting code from the other, so only CentOS community members will be able to push to c#-* branches, while only Fedora community members can push to f#*/epel#* branches. With the new dynamic ACL validation in place, CentOS SIG members will automatically get the rights to push on their specific branches. While the repositories and content are shared between the communities, authentication is not. To push to c# branches, you will have to authenticate against accounts.centos.org. Similarly Fedora community members will continue to authenticate against accounts.fedoraproject.org. 1. https://github.com/repoSpanner/repoSpanner 2. https://git.stg.centos.org/api/0/ -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77