Re: [EPEL-devel] Proposing an EPEL packaging SIG

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 08:54:57AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Michel Alexandre Salim
> wrote: 
>  > There are several changes we can make to both streamline the
> process,
>  > and not increase the maintenance burden on the (other) maintainers of
>  > these packages:
>  > 
>  > * Have an EPEL SIG modeled after the SIGs centered around programming
>  > language stacks (e.g. Python, Haskell, Java)
>  > * Have an expedited flow where this SIG can request EPEL branches and
>  > admin access to packages if there are no response from package
>  > maintainers for a set period (3 days? 1 week?)
>  
>  Both of those are really short... I guess a week or two might be ok.  
The old pkgdb had one week for this (if after a week of the branch request being
opened the current admins had not rejected the branching (with a reason), the
branch request was processed).


Pierre