Re: Proposal: gate all stable release updates on rmdepcheck

On Tue, 2026-07-07 at 18:27 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-07-07 at 09:56 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > 
> > > And while I kind of agree that the Change process does not seem to be
> > > *great* fit for this, but similar changes *have* gone through the
> > > Change process before (like
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GatingRawhidePackages ). Should
> > > a system-wide change (lower case intentional) like this require at
> > > least *some* kind of signoff from FESCo?
> > 
> > I suppose it might be a good idea to get a fesco ack here.
> > But also, I think this should be flexable so if it's enabled and some
> > big problem appears it can be disabled again until thats addressed, etc.
> 
> Also, that Change isn't really similar to the current case at all. That
> Change was really about building the *mechanism* to allow per-package
> opt-in gating, and it actually also encompassed the on-demand side tag
> creation work too. So it was a lot of detailed engineering work across
> multiple key components (Bodhi, greenwave, fedpkg etc.)
> 
> This is...not that. This is adding a couple of lines to
> https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/ansible/src/branch/main/roles/openshift-apps/greenwave/templates/fedora.yaml.j2
> and running the playbook, which I can do in five minutes. And if it all
> goes pear-shaped, we revert the commit and run the playbook again.
> 
> I'll note we did not go through the Change process when enabling gating
> on openQA tests, either - neither when we initially did it for stable
> releases, nor when we extended it to Rawhide and Branched. I did the
> same thing as this, more or less - floated it on the mailing lists and
> in some chats, waited for feedback, then went ahead and did it. That's
> been working out fine.

Whoops, forgot to say: I'd be fine with filing a FESCo ticket asking
for approval, though.
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