[CentOS-devel] "CentOS.devel"

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8 April 2015 at 12:47, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

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

And I think you are jumping to conclusions about my point. So we are both
at a loss to how to communicate.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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