On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Peter Lemenkov <lemen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-03-21 16:07 GMT+04:00 Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>: > >>> It doesn't exist, it's an idea that Robyn has floated semi-seriously >>> as a way to provide a repo that moves faster than EPEL. Rather than >>> try to jam fast-moving stuff in to EPEL, the idea was to do an Extra >>> Packages for Infrastructure and Cloud (EPIC) that had a different, >>> faster-moving charter. EPIC would target the *EL platform just as EPEL >>> does. > > Faster moving rate is great indeed. But adding more than on version of > software (no matter of how many repos it takes) means only one - we > have to impose additional support requiremetns on a packagers. > > The "social contract" requiremens for EPEL "support" (which of souce > isn't a "real" support) is way too high for the average maintainer. > That's the reason I believe the entire EPEL idea was a huge mistake > and waste of time - unfortunately I failed to discuss this with other > fellow fedora members during FOSDEM Fedora.NEXT related talks.
I think everyone speaks from their own corner of EPEL and the packages they care about. I know EPEL feels like a mistake and a waste of time to you in the context of your past discussions about the Erlang packages (and maybe you're thinking of others as well). From my own perspective, there are a ton of packages in EPEL that I rely on which are quite stable (for example the Perl ones). When I imagine a world without EPEL, individual users and sites would still need to address the problems of remediating CVEs, dealing with unstable upstreams, etc., but they wouldn't have the benefit of sharing the infrastructure and testing with other sites. There are certainly areas for improvement, like any open-source project, but I wanted to share my perspective that I think EPEL still does more good than harm, even in its current form. - Ken _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
