> we are discussing in this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220138 the work that
> would be required to upgrade Mono in Epel.
>
> I am aware that this is a major upgrade, and according to [1] it
> should be avoided.
> But Mono is that old in Epel7 already, so the discussion currently
> goes into the direction that an upgrade is better than nobody using
> Mono in Epel at all.

It either needs to be upgraded or retired, I have no issues with it
being upgraded.

> I would like to upgrade to the latest stable Mono version, which is
> 4.2 at the moment. That is in rawhide already, F23 has Mono 4.0.

Is there a LTS release in the mono 4.x release?

> What do people think on this list?

What's the future of Mono with an open source MS .Net core?

> Do I need to create a Fesco ticket to request permission to upgrade
> Mono in Epel7, and to do a bootstrap similar to Mono 4 in Fedora [2]?

Well it would be Eesco, but personally I don't believe it's needed, it
just needs to be properly co-ordinated.

> Thanks for any hints and suggestions,
>   Timotheus
>
> [1] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/528
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