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# 2022-12-07 repod meeting

Date: 2022-12-07T19:30:00Z Location: Jitsi Scribe: brett

## Attendees

* alad * artafinde * brett * dvzrv * isaac * lobachevsky * wCPO

## Agenda

### Git and PGP

* Evaluating which Git/PGP integration for signing and signature checking to use ([#155](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/issues/155)). Current ecosystem is not ideal, so finding the "best" solution is difficult.

* Ideally a separate service would run alongside repod that would be able to sign

* Shelling out to gpg/git commands not ideal since repod integration would be awkward due to output parsing (gpg is particularly awful).

* Getting Git integration is more important than GPG integration right now.

### Updating dependencies

* Still no integration for renovatebot; It does not parse pyproject.toml (it only integrates into poetry).

* Update of mypy was difficult.

### Grouping of repositories

Can now add a group number to repositories! Groups must have unique packages in that group and will reject package uploads if that is violated.

### Manpage improvements

* Readability of manpages have been improved. ([#153](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/issues/153)).

* Lots of options are exposed and more are coming! Considering grouping the options for better navigation.

* Usage of equals sign after the options confused an attendee; It's not a very common pattern but adopted by other projects like systemd.

### Module refactoring

Some models are now being used across modules, so work was done to combine them into `common/models.py`

Regex verification of package values (`common/regex.py`) not compiled into a regex object: This is a possible improvement if it's do-able.

### Funding

Still no funding. Prototype fund didn't pan out. Still waiting for reply from Internet Fund. Valve still hasn't replied.

### Talk at Hacking in Parallel (HIP)

https://hip-berlin.de/

December 27-30 2022 in Berlin. Tickets are sold out but dvzrv will be giving a talk:

"Pacman can have the cookies and eat the ghosts too"

Schedule to be released shortly. All talks on the stages can be recorded and streamed via media.ccc.