On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:22:07 -0700 Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the issues that I am finding is that most software these days > has only a 3 year lifetime at best.. if you want it to be longer you > are going to pay for it either by maintaining it yourself or paying > someone else. The work to try and keep software 'stable' over a 6 > month lifetime seems to grow exponentially so that by the end of the 3 > years it is 1000 times harder than it was in the beginning. Now the > number of people who are wanting to work on this older software for > free (or if they are doing it for themselves to share it for "free") > is incredibly small. I expect that we are looking at 10 packages in > EPEL maybe? So we are going to be looking at rebasing and updates > every 2-3 years no matter what for the majority of software. Expecting > it not to be like that is Cnut's tidal problem. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves An additional issue with SCL's is that we have no guidelines on them. While I suppose EPEL could add them with it's own guidelines, I would be against that given that Fedora couldn't finalize them. kevin
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