[CentOS-devel] CPE to staff EPEL work

Fri Sep 3 05:10:16 UTC 2021
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> 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

Thank you Red Hat, that's really GOOD news!

Regards,
Simon