> 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