i am obviously unclear on the policy used to determine which kernel versions end up in that repository.
rday
You want to ask elrepo-related questions on the elrepo mailing list.
But here's the post that would answer your question:
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2018-February/004120.html
ah, was not aware there was a separate mailing list for that, my apologies.
It's not just a separate mailing list, ELRepo is actually not a CentOS thing at all. It is totally independent. You can use ELRepo with any RHEL derived distro - such as RHEL, CentOS or SL. See
ISTR that it was created to bring together in one place a bunch of repos that provided similar things in order to minimise repetition and confusion.
P.