On 9 April 2015 at 11:01, Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com> wrote:

On 04/09/2015 10:51 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> We get way more pushback
> from developers finding out that their package is in an EL without their
> knowledge than we do from either consumers of EPEL not finding a
> particular one.

Bit of a tangent... but would you mind clarifying who "we" is there? If
there is pushback to EPEL packagers, I'm not seeing it on the epel-devel
list, or in the bugs I'm watching, so it must be happening through other
channels?

My apologies.. 'we' was a royal we meaning the people who are 'running' the EPEL project, EPSCO for no better word. The pushback from developers came when packages were branched into a new EPEL release without the developer knowing about it. [EG if you owned say nethack and were listed in EL-5 but found that you were getting asked about bugs in EL-6 or EL-7 which you had no interest in and no other developer had asked to maintain it in EL-6 or EL-7].

The problem usually are reported in direct emails or IRC. We also see the opposite emails where the developers are wondering why their package wasn't put in EL-6 or EL-7 when they had it in EL-5... but the release group decided it was better to surprise on the side of caution (eg no branch into EL-X)

- Ken

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