enhance FedoraGitReleaser to build to all active Fedora branches

[xsuchy]

I use this releasers.conf:

[fedora-git]
releaser = tito.release.FedoraGitReleaser
branches = rawhide f37 f36 f35

And it is pain to update it every 3 months because of new releases and new branching.

It would be awesome if I can use some magic to mark all active branches. E.g.,

branches = rawhide **fedora-active** **epel-active**

The list of active branches can be fetched from https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/ which has API.

[FrostyX]

It would be awesome if I can use some magic to mark all active branches. E.g.,

branches = rawhide fedora-active epel-active

I am thinking of an alternative.

We can get the list of the active Fedora/EPEL versions here
https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/rest_api/v1/product-versions/

We can also get the list of branches for a package, e.g.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/api/0/rpms/copr-cli/git/branches
(or git fetch all)

So what if we make the branches = setting optional? And if not set, build the package for its every active branch?

[praiskup]

The default behavior sounds OK to me, but I still think we should have the pattern-like solution on top of it.
E.g. have multiple releasers both in the mock and copr project. E.g. mock, in the main is built against all fedora + epel8+, but not against epel7.

[FrostyX]

This would IMHO work even with

So what if we make the branches = setting optional? And if not set, build the package for its every active branch?

Because this would basically build the package for all "Active branches" that are listed here

• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/copr-cli/branches
• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/copr-frontend/branches
• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/copr-messaging/branches

Which is IMHO the 99% of use cases. And I think it translates correctly for all Copr packages.

Of course, there might be packages that have their EPEL7 branch active but the packager no longer wishes to update it (maybe that's the case of Mock?). Such packages would continue listing the branches explicitly and I would suggest adding either exclude_branches option or something like branches = !epel7 or branches = -epel7 that would exclude from the default list.

What do you think?

[praiskup]

Of course, there might be packages that have their EPEL7 branch active but the packager no longer wishes to update it (maybe that's the case of Mock?).

With Mock, we release from the upstream mock-2 branch into the Fedora downstream epel7.

something like branches = !epel7

That would work, yes :-)

[praiskup]

Note for myself: curl 'https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/rest_api/v1/product-versions/?active=true' | jq