On Feb 9, 2008 7:22 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04.02.2008 18:24, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Any topics for the next meeting? > > > > RT3 > > Xavier seems to do a good in that area. Thx for that Xavier! > > > [...] > > What else can be done? > > RHEL5 is now 11 months old iirc, so RHEL6 is still likely more then one > year away. That seems a long time, but on the other hand I suppose that > means we'll have the first beta in about 6-9 months and we need to start > preparing EPEL6 then. >
I was thinking it would be about 7-8 months away for RHEL-6 (18 month release cycle between major releases)... plus the fact that it has sort of been a 3 release cycle (FC-0, FC-3,FC-6,FC-9?).. but that is probably useless speculation. > I'd wondering if we should soon start with a preparation for the EPEL6 > preparation by reconsidering to realize a old EPEL idea. > > What I want to say is: When EPEL did its baby steps there was the idea > to form a "EPEL task force" (or what did we call it?): a dedicated group > of people interested in EPEL that helps Fedora owners when they need > help. Here is a example to explain the idea behind that group: > > - Fedora owner wants to see his package in EPEL, but has no EL release > and no interest to run centos in a VM > > - Fedora owner nevertheless builds his package in EPEL; the EPEL task > force (as a group, not as a individual) becomes comaintainer > > - if needed (e.g. in case of EPEL specific bugs or a urgent update that > needs to be tested to quickly get it moved from testing to stable) the > Fedora maintainer yells "EPEL task force, please help". > > - someone from the "EPEL task force" helps > > Such a concept could help a lot when EPEL6 gets prepared. We could look > out for the subset of rawhide packages that we'd really like to have in > EPEL6. Then mail the package owners that are not participating in EPEL > yet and tell them something like "RHEL6 is nearly the same as the 'core' > of Fedora right now, so it's the perfect time to build you Fedora > package in EPEL6; chances are quite big that it'll just build without > any modifications. If you want you can ask the EPEL Task Force to become > official comaintainer; the guys from the task force can then later help > if you need help with EPEL-specific problems". > > The same concept liekly has benefits for EPEL4 and EPEL5 as well, but > the more Fedora moves on it becomes different from RHEL; as a result it > becomes harder for people to adjust a Fedora package for EPEL. That's > why getting lots of Fedora packages into EPEL6 when RHEL6 ships seems to > be important to me. > > Just a idea and just my 2 cent. > It does sound good. I was trying to experiment at home with a build all of Fedora-8/9 for EL-4/EL-5 to see what is possible (sort of a EPEL-rawhide :)) having it with the EL-6 beta would give it a clean idea of what is going to work and what won't. Having a team of people to help do the work with the maintainers is even better. One last thing to add to the agenda. Marketing issues: 1) Logo 2) Posters 3) etc. The Fedora art team can help us with this.. but we need to have some idea of what they should draw. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
