On 4 April 2016 at 10:47, James Hogarth <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI all,

> How do others feel and does the Steering Committee feel it might be time to
> revisit the SCL question?
>

There are 2 issues which still have to be dealt with.

1) The upstream Fedora maintainers are not keen on SCL's. We could say
'yay' SCLs but if the packaging guidelines etc don't allow for SCL's
[and they don't seem to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SoftwareCollections ] we aren't getting
them approved into EPEL because the guidelines used to review packages
don't allow or cover them.

2) Packages don't just magically appear. You need to have maintainers
who will keep up the packages. One of the problems that the SCL group
has been having is that the packages are mostly 'good enough for me'
level where the person packages it up and then doesn't want to do any
further maintenance on it.

Yes both of these are solvable. We aren't going to solve them soon.


> Cheers,
>
> JAmes
>
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