Howdy,
My name is Carl, and I'm a developer for the IUS Community repository.
CentOS users have easy access to the EPEL repo because the epel-release RPM is in the CentOS Extras repository. Obviously CentOS and EPEL have a special relationship, since they are both sponsored by Red Hat. A coworker suggested to me that it would be nice if the ius-release RPM could be included in Extras as well. I brought the idea up in IRC, and Karanbir suggested I draft up a specification that any third party repository can follow to be considered for inclusion. Here is what I have so far.
https://gist.github.com/cgtx/b854281462a18007f509
If this looks familiar, it's because I used the IUS SafeRepo Initiative as a starting point. Please share your feedback and ideas.
Carl George Rackspace RPM Development