On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Since the CentOS acquihire, there was a lot of discussion about EPEL's > future. > Since the FOSDEM meetup between Fedora/CentOS folks, there was little > progress on that topic > > After a discussion with a Smooge, I decided to come with a proposal, > knowing that > 1. Fedora wants to keep EPEL within it umbrella > 2. That CentOS SIGs are in practice rebuilding a lot of EPEL packages > (or retag them for other SIGs) > leading to poor maintenance as they don't follow EPEL tickets for all > their dependencies. > 3. EPEL is not part CentOS plans, and as soon as SIGs will progress, > *may* turn the former irrelevant > 4. Some EPEL packages are poorly maintained especially on older EL > releases and/or orphaned > > > We've reached the point where both EPEL/CBS would greatly benefit to join > hands. > > So I suggest that we consider the following: > * EPEL will still use Fedora dist-git > * EPEL builds should be done in CBS to make it easier for SIGs to consume > it. > * EPEL will use CentOS repositories instead of mirroring RHEL repositories > * Bridging Fedora/CentOS accounting system (CentOS is migrating to > FAS) <== we need to see the feasibility of this but that would be > optimal, that would increase the permeability between our two > contributors pools which is something, we all want to encourage. > * Create a EPEL provenpackager group under CentOS core SIG > supervision, allowing them to appoint people to maintain EPEL > packages. > > I suggest that we keep the EPEL name to acknowledge EPEL historical > effort to provide quality additional packages for EL distros. > Fedora contributors would still be able to contribute to EPEL, and > CentOS contributors to make it up their standards. > > Would that work for you? > I'm a maintainer of several EPEL packages and a CentOS user. After reading through this, I don't understand the value in this shift. Also, what are the potential negatives of the change? Thanks, Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150921/a0e5e148/attachment-0008.html>