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 wouldn't be surprised if this has come up before but I couldn't > figure out any keywords that would find previous conversation on this topic > from the archives) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-devel mailing list > > CentOS-devel at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- > Lokesh > Freenode, OFTC: lsm5 > GPG: 0xC7C3A0DD > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150408/aff6bc66/attachment-0008.html>