EPEL Proposed meeting: Fri Aug 22 16:00:00 UTC 2014

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:51:04 -0600
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am proposing that the EPEL community hold a meeting in #epel on
> Friday August 22, 2014 16:00:00 UTC to go over various community
> items:

Sure. I will be there. :) 

Thanks for trying to organize things again. 

> Suggested topics:
> 
> #topic Forking of EPEL packages to a faster moving repository
> 
> a) Proposed name of repository is EPIC
> b) What packages stay, which packages go.
> 
> #topic Setup and controls for said repository
> 
> When do packages update in EPIC repository, how are they announced and
> where?

There are a ton of logistical issues if we create a new repo. 

- Is it in regular fedora git as another branch? If not, where else?
- Can we teach bodhi how to deal with it? Or does it just not use
  bodhi/updates?
- Does it build in koji? 
- Package reviews the same as other packages?
 
> #topic Review and cleanup of EPEL policies
> 
> There was a problem with several packages being removed which broke
> other packages. These packages were removed because we have in the
> past not allow orphaned or non-maintain packages.. but where is this
> documented.

The mongodb thing turns out to have just been a mistake. ;) 
But yeah, documenting more process would be good. 

kevin
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