On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:33 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> wrote:


On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 6:25 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 9:33 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik@greysector.net> wrote:

> It would be really nice if the wording of the bug could contain some
> kind of a "thank you" note to the EPEL maintainers of the package in
> question. Not everyone will understand this process as "great, I don't
> have to maintain package X anymore, Red Hat will be doing that for me
> from now on". Some folks may take it as "Oh no! Red Hat is taking away
> my toy! Why?!" Ideally, there should still be a way for EPEL
> maintainer(s) to continue contributing to the RHEL package.

Perhaps add something like (wordsmithed by someone
competent in such things):

"The package you have been maintaining in EPEL is now
considered important enough to a large enough part of our
customers that Red Hat has decided to promote it to being
an officially supported part of the product...."

I like that idea.  It's much more positive.  A nice "Thank you for doing this in EPEL" type of feel.

Troy

This is what I have on my ticket.  Respond soon (by tomorrow end of day) if you think I need changes.

Subject:
Notice: <package> will be automatically retired from epel<major> when RHEL <major>.<minor> is released

Comment:
Thank you for your work maintaining <package> in epel<major>.  This package has been considered important enough to Red Hat's customers that Red Hat has decided to promote it to be an official part of RHEL.  It will be part of RHEL <major>.<minor>.  When that is released, EPEL automation will remove <package> from epel<major>.

Troy