[CentOS-devel] "CentOS.devel"

Thu Apr 9 21:02:06 UTC 2015
Sven Kieske <svenkieske at gmail.com>

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On 09.04.2015 19:21, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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)
I don't get why either side (user or developer/maintainer) needs to
get "surprised"?

Couldn't a simple mechanism exists which asks every package maintainer
before a new epel release gets created if his package should be included
there (a mail with a link to website with a yes/no button would
suffice, or something similar)?

you could also create opt-in or opt-out of such a function if people
find it too annoying (after all it's just one email every X years).

this of course assumes you have mail addresses of maintainers at hand.
I don't know if this is the case, but I hope so.

And of course someone would have to work out this stuff.

kind regards

Sven
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