[CentOS-devel] CPE to staff EPEL work

Wed Nov 17 18:05:00 UTC 2021
Steven Rosenberg <passthejoe at gmail.com>

Nice! Thanks to the EPEL developers for this must-have repo.

On Sat, 2021-11-13 at 17:00 -0600, Carl George wrote:
> We're getting close to launching epel9-next (built against CentOS
> Stream 9), just currently blocked by a Fedora s390x infrastructure
> issue before we can finalize it and announce it.
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UYRS43SV6ERPL2VIGR4XQACNHENFHH2N/
> 
> epel9 (built against RHEL9) won't exist until after the RHEL9 GA
> release.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM lejeczek via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 02/09/2021 14:15, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > > We are pleased to announce that Red Hat is establishing a
> > > small team directly responsible for participating in EPEL
> > > activities. Their job isn't to displace the EPEL
> > > community, but rather to support it full-time. We expect
> > > many beneficial effects, among those better EPEL readiness
> > > for a RHEL major release. The EPEL team will be part of
> > > the wider Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for
> > > short.
> > > 
> > > As a reminder, CPE is the Red Hat team combining IT and
> > > release engineering from Fedora and CentOS.
> > > 
> > > Right now we are staffing up the team and expect to see us
> > > begin this work from October 2021. Keep an eye on the EPEL
> > > mailing list[1] and the associated tracker as we begin
> > > this exciting journey with the EPEL community.
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/
> > > 
> > > [2] https://pagure.io/epel/issues
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > And how is EPEL for c9stream coming?
> > many thanks, L.
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