2015-09-21 16:38 GMT+02:00 Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>: > > > 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 > I don't see any negative except that it will require some efforts to do the transition (and I'm already volunteering to work on that). Bridging two FAS instances may not be possible currently. The value is that, what CentOS SIGs are trying to build will leverage EPEL without having them duplicate in a poorly fashion, work done in EPEL. https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup Enhancing collaboration between EPEL and CentOS will allow us to ship a much better curated EPEL repository, you're more likely to find people able to provide proper maintenance of EPEL packages within the CentOS community. And if CentOS ended up rebuilding an EPEL-like repositories (which will happen sooner or later), what will happen to EPEL? Moreover, rebuilding EPEL from scratch will be painful and long process. Regards, H.