<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 April 2015 at 12:47, Les Mikesell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com" target="_blank">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <<a href="mailto:smooge@gmail.com">smooge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 7 April 2015 at 09:27, Lokesh Mandvekar <<a href="mailto:lsm5@fedoraproject.org">lsm5@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:<br>
>> > For a long time, Red Hat engineers have dropped public RPMs onto<br>
>> > <a href="http://people.redhat.com" target="_blank">people.redhat.com</a>. Now that CentOS is a more official part of the family,<br>
>> > it seems like an obvious idea to me, but why not create a "centos7-devel"<br>
>> > branch that is public work that is intended to go into the next upstream<br>
>> > update?<br>
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>> > Several of the existing repos like virt7-testing and atomic7-testing<br>
>> > could simply be folded into this repo.<br>
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>> +1, given that packages like docker could be relevant to atomic and virt.<br>
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>> > As well as these "hand built" RPMs:<br>
>> > <a href="http://people.redhat.com/lnykryn/systemd/" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/lnykryn/systemd/</a><br>
>> > <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview/" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview/</a><br>
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>> > And I'm sure others.<br>
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>> I'd love to see epel get combined with this as well, but I'm probably<br>
>> speaking with a docker-tunneled vision.<br>
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> I don't think EPEL could fit in here because the audience for EPEL is a lot<br>
> more conservative in what they want than what people working on anything<br>
> from this decade want. 45% of EPEL users are EL-5, 50% are EL-6 and 5% are<br>
> EL-7. Projects which are aimed at the EL-7 -> EL-8 space will get a lot of<br>
> pushback from users when things get updated (this is the reason openstack<br>
> and various other tools have had to been pulled from EPEL in the past..)<br>
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> That said, I had an idea called EPIC which might be a better place for these<br>
> items.<br>
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</div></div>I think you are missing the point of conservatism, which is about not<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And I think you are jumping to conclusions about my point. So we are both at a loss to how to communicate.</div><div> </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div></div>
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