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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150408/9f052bdf/attachment-0008.html>