On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:47 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:41 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> The idea to build Fedora (Extras) Packages for RHEL and compatible
> distros like CentOS in the scope of the Fedora Project is over half a
> year old now, but didn't really take of yet. This mail (and some other
> work in other places like the wiki) tries to actually get the idea
> running a bit more faster now in the hope that the project actually
> takes of soon.
Thanks for stepping up and organizing us this far. It's really helping
make EPEL happen.
> -- the package needs to be supported until the End Of Life (EOL) of the
> Distributions they were build for -- round about seven years. Sure,
> nobody of us knows if he still be around then. But you should not build
> packages for EPEL if you plan to moe oer to other stuff soon or find
> packaging really annoying
One idea we want to promote is making the packaging into a job role
instead of a personal side-project. This is possible and useful where
your employer or other outside organization benefits from your package
in EPEL. For example, your infrastructure requires package Foo be
rebuilt in EPEL. If you make package maintenance part of your job role,
you gain:
Is your intention to preclude people that _are_ doing it as a side
project?
josh