Re: getting EPEL 9 started [was Re: ELN SIG First Meeting]

2021-03-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 02:31:14PM -0800, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Sorry for jumping in late, I'm sporadically online while on parental > leave (haven't been able to touch my laptop for the past few days!) No need to be sorry. :) Congrats! > Mass-branching does seem too different from what

Re: getting EPEL 9 started [was Re: ELN SIG First Meeting]

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:55:44AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > That would be more or less what Ubuntu universe is doing: branch every > package in Fedora, build it once for EPEL, and then just let it rot unless a > maintainer volunteers to actually maintain it. It might be better than

Re: getting EPEL 9 started [was Re: ELN SIG First Meeting]

2021-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Matthew Miller wrote: > I have a couple of packages which I find handy to have in EPEL -- little > command line utilities, mostly -- and which have very little change over > time and which I'm 99.9% will just build on EPEL 9. My EPEL maintenance > policy is basically "build once when there is a new

Re: getting EPEL 9 started [was Re: ELN SIG First Meeting]

2021-03-04 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 16:24 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 01:11:55PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > In any case, I'm not convinced mass branching is ever going to work > > for > > epel. Although I suppose as more packages have the epel packager > > sig > > group on them, tha

getting EPEL 9 started [was Re: ELN SIG First Meeting]

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 01:11:55PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > In any case, I'm not convinced mass branching is ever going to work for > epel. Although I suppose as more packages have the epel packager sig > group on them, that group could work on faster adding piles of packages. > Perhaps we shou