Flag Day 2016
On the 12th of December 2016 there will be end user impacting changes the packager work flow.
Kerberos for Authentication
Koji supports multiple authentication mechanisms. Fedora infrastructure has set up a freeipa instance internally that has credential syncing to fas. We are working on ensuring that gssapi caching is supported so that you can have multiple TGT's and the ability to work in multiple reams at once. you can get started today by doing kinit <fas username>@FEDORAPROJECT.ORG if you move your ~/.fedora.cert file out of the way authentication will still work.
Well known ssl certificates for koji and pkgs
Using well known certs for koji.fedoraproject.org arm.koji.fedoraproject.org ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org s390.koji.fedoraproject.org pkgs.fedoraproject.org this is the last step needed to have fedoraproject.org switch to hsts and default to https:// when connecting to any fedora service. It will also remove a lot of questions that new people have when connecting to koji via https.
Disable SSL authentication in koji and pkgs
With the switch to keberos and the change of ssl certificates on the koji and pkgs servers we will be disabling the ability to login to koji using a ssl certificate completely. This change will require new koji client configurations for everyone
Gate rawhide builds
Gating will enable us to sign rawhide builds and switch the rawhide repo to having gpgcheck enabled.
What do I have to do
In order to achieve everything we have to break end user configurations. All users will need to have new enough versions of fedora-packager, fedpkg, rpkg, koji. the exact versions needed are not yet known as some enhancements are still being worked on. We will be aiming to have everything pushed stable right before the flag day. Some of the changes will not be compatible with the existing setup. We anticipate keeping everyone informed as we move forward about any actions that will need to be taken on the developer side.