Re: CPE to staff EPEL

[Leigh Griffin]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 10:41 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:23 AM Leigh Griffin <lgriffin(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Just a quick mail to let folks know that from October 1st, the CPE team
> > will be working towards supporting the EPEL community. We just posted a
> > quick comm blog on it [1] and wanted to raise wider awareness on the devel
> > list. More good things to follow in the coming weeks and I will try and
> > cross post here, but please consider following the EPEL mailing list [2]
> > where we will be posting more regular updates.
> >
>
>  Cool. EPEL has long been a necessary part of RHEL environments, and for
>  many of us RHEL would not be welcome in our production environments without
>  it.  I especially include components like ansible, which may be available
>  from additional RHEL yum channels but are awkward, at best, to provide in
>  CentOS and non-specifically-subscribed default RHEL systems. It's going to
>  especially require attention with the 4.x release of ansible, which
>  requires python 3.6 or later, and which originally required python 3.8
>  which was not available for RHEL 7 or CentOS 7. I thought I might have to
>  set up pyenv, which I did *not* want to do!
>  
Thanks Nico for the input and observations here, this is exactly what we
want to hear as we look to make improvements :)

>  Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com&gt;
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