On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 12:12:07PM -0500, Maxwell G via epel-devel wrote: > On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Troy Dawson wrote: > > EPEL2RHEL is part of the RHEL 8 and 9 new package workflow. When a RHEL > > maintainer wants to add a package to RHEL 8 or 9 they start a "new package > > workflow". There are several automations that happen when they start that > > workflow. One of them is checking if the package is already in epel. If > > it is, it creates a bugzilla against that package, and links that bug > > against the EPEL2RHEL tracker. [1] > > Remember, this check currently happens at the beginning of the new package > > workflow. Before a package has been branched, built, or put into testing > > repos. > > I think this whole process should be automated. File bugs that say "Heads up: > your package will be automatically retired after the release of RHEL X.X" and > provide some explanation. This will have multiple benefits: > > 1. Saying "you'll have to do something in six months, but it'll be bad if you > do it now" is quite difficult to follow. > > 2. We can send out one announcement to epel-announce about which packages are > going to be retired and when that'll happen, instead of retiring packages in > a > piecemeal manner. > > 3. The maintainers won't have to remember to do it. > > 4. If we find out that a package is buildroot only, then we'll close the bug > and exclude it from the automatic retiring.
I really like this approach... :) kevin
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