On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 18:26, Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Overall this seems fine to me, a few nitpicks inline... > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:51:15PM -0800, Troy Dawson wrote: > > This is a proposal. It's mainly writing down what I think most of us > > agreed on at last weeks EPEL Steering Committee meeting. Feel free to > > continue to discuss and/or have ideas. > > I've been asked by a couple places what the plans were, so I'm writing > it here. > > > > Overall Plan: > > - epel-next is an epel branch that is built against CentOS Stream. > epel-next > > only has the packages that would be incompatible with released RHEL > > builds, or if an EPEL maintainer is updating a package that will only > > be released to regular EPEL at the next RHEL release. > > - We plan on creating epel9-next when CentOS 9 Stream has a public > > repository. We plan on using the EPEL Packaging SIG to populate it > > early with common packages, although any EPEL package maintainers can > > add their packages whenever they want. > > This part I am unsure of. What are 'common packages' ? > We should make sure and ask maintainers to branch and maintain packages > they want for this, but I think it would be odd to just do it without > them being in the loop. We never never 'mass branched' things in the > past. EPEL isn't a specific set of packages, it's packages maintainers > want to maintain. That said, if there's packages of interest where the > maintainers are not interested in epel, the epel sig should definitely > branch and maintain those. > > There is a little nuance here. In order to get the repository going, we had to 'mass-branch' about 40 or so packages. fedpkg and some other items require quite a few packages which all have to be done at once. Without those you can't build anything else to put into EPEL... so I would say that EPEL is the specific set of packages in order to get a minimal repository working in the Fedora Build System. Everything else is just extras people add to it.
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