[EPEL-devel] Re: Proposed change to bodhi days to stable for epel
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 14:42, Troy Dawson <tdawson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Currently the default days to stable for EPEL is 14 days.
I believe when it was first put in it was set to that time because we wanted things more
stable and better tested. But experience has found that if a package is going to get
tested, it usually is in the first few days of when it was built. Thus 14 days seems to
be 4 days of testing, and 10 days of sitting.
I am proposing that we change the "days to stable" for epel to 7 days, matching
Fedora's "days to stable".
People have asked that the epel-next "days to stable" be dropped down to 3
days, matching Fedora when it is in it's development phase. The reasoning is that
epel-next is built off CentOS Stream, which only has 6 months at the most before it is
rolled into the next RHEL release.
If people could give any cases for, or against these, please respond here. The EPEL
Steering Committee will have a vote at our next meeting (July 28).
I am personally for these. The world has changed.. and the reasons for
EPEL having a wait were when people were active in testing packages.
These days, people just want stuff and having them wait 14 days no
longer matches that. [Personally I even wonder if updates-testing
makes sense from the very small usage of it.]
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