Ever since the early days of Fedora’s COPR, we’ve been wanting to utilize it as our rpm build system for a multitude of reasons. Recently, we have been able to successfully adopt COPR and adapt it into our rpm building workflows. I would like to write an article about this experience.
Article Description:
The concept is still pretty new in my head, but i’m envisioning a structure along the lines of:
Why did we want to switch build systems
Why did we chose copr
What kept us from adopting copr sooner
Our RPM packaging/build/sign/publish workflow and tooling
Replacing our koji.katello.org server with COPR in this workflow.
Our experience with releasing Foreman 3.9/Katello 4.11 with COPR (this is the release we did it on)
Also open to suggestions of what would improve the article, etc…
This sounds like a great FOSS topic. One thing you might want to consider, however, is your target audience. Fedora Magazine primarily targets Fedora Linux users as opposed to Fedora Linux (and other FOSS) developers. The Fedora Community Blog is where articles targeted at the Fedora Linux development community are normally posted. (It is OK to post an article like this to Fedora Magazine if you think it might be of interest to a more general audience.)
