These are my preliminary thoughts about your spec file:

1) Please add a meaningful description that does not only repeat the summary.
   People should be able to decide whether or not they'd need to install this
   package

2) You need a %changelog entry, please provide such an entry at the end of
   your spec file, and keep it up-to-date

   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Changelogs

3) Please specify the upstream URL in Source0, not only the name of the file.

4) Your spec file does not mention Requires:, but from the summary I'd expect
   that both git and gpg/gpg2 would be needed at runtime.

5) store your COPYING file under %(_datadir)/licenses/%(name) and tag it as
    %license

6) The Group-tag is missing. Also it's optional, it would be nice to place your
   binary in a group.

7) Please create a man page for your binary.

(In reply to Ralf Senderek from comment #1)

> 5) store your COPYING file under %(_datadir)/licenses)/%(name) and tag it as
>     %license

As the license text is standard LGPLv2+, it is not necessary to store it in
%(_datadir)/licenses, but marking it as %license is.


> 4) Requires:

Your binary requires at least git:

error: Failed dependencies:
	libgit2.so.23()(64bit) is needed by git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc23.x86_64

(In reply to Ralf Senderek from comment #1)
> These are my preliminary thoughts about your spec file:

I fixed a few of these in:
https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag/pull/18

Do you want to review that?

> 
> 1) Please add a meaningful description that does not only repeat the summary.
>    People should be able to decide whether or not they'd need to install this
>    package
> 
> 2) You need a %changelog entry, please provide such an entry at the end of
>    your spec file, and keep it up-to-date

This however I'll only do in dist-git, not usptream.  I don't like rpm %changelogs - IMO they should be deleted in favor of a combination of bodhi, dist-git git logs, and upstream git logs.

> 3) Please specify the upstream URL in Source0, not only the name of the file.

Ordinarily I don't do this because my modules tend to use submodules, which runs into https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL?rd=Packaging/SourceURL#Git_Submodules

Which is something https://github.com/cgwalters/rpmdistro-gitoverlay handles out of the box.

> 4) Your spec file does not mention Requires:, but from the summary I'd expect
>    that both git and gpg/gpg2 would be needed at runtime.

Fixed these.

> 5) store your COPYING file under %(_datadir)/licenses/%(name) and tag it as
>     %license

Just saying %license seems to do the former.
 
> 6) The Group-tag is missing. Also it's optional, it would be nice to place
> your
>    binary in a group.

Not sure...nothing really uses it.

> 7) Please create a man page for your binary.

Yeah.

(In reply to Colin Walters from comment #3)

> > 7) Please create a man page for your binary.
> 
https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag/pull/19

For anyone who wants precompiled RPMs until this review completes, the COPR link: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/walters/git-evtag/

> # For autosetup
> BuildRequires: git
not needed

> %autosetup -Sgit
don't think that you use any features from that, so %autosetup

> make %{?_smp_mflags}
%make_build

> make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} INSTALL="install -p -c"
%make_install INSTALL="install -p -c"

> %doc COPYING README.md
%license COPYING
%doc README.md

* no changelog section
* 2016.1 -> %{version}

Resolution: ALMOST GOOD

I'd prefer to keep %autosetup, since I always find myself adding it to packages that don't have it the minute I do have to add patches.

Other bits in https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag/commit/5454ceb3939a6a41fce21e312facd27c40286a9f

OK?

Package request has been approved: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/git-evtag

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-38e351d6f2

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-66b8607f19

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-66b8607f19

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-38e351d6f2

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

git-evtag-2016.1-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.