[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL2RHEL - New Wording? - New Workflow?

[Davide Cavalca]

On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 12:12 -0500, Maxwell G via epel-devel wrote:
> I think this whole process should be automated. File bugs that say
> "Heads up: 
> your package will be automatically retired after the release of RHEL
> X.X" and 
> provide some explanation.

Agreed. This is a pretty mechanical process: all the maintainer would
do is run "fedpkg retire" for the appropriate branches, and that looks
reasonable to automate. If we're concerned about bugs in the automation
retiring packages that shouldn't be impacted, we can have it file a
ticket for signoff on the EPEL tracker (or have some other process to
spot check, at least until we're confiden it'll do the right thing).

Cheers
Davide