On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Maxwell G via epel-devel wrote:
Hi EPEL folks,
In the past couple EPEL SCo meetings, we have been discussing adding a new package retirement policy for EPEL packages.
That reads amusingly to me... to be clear 'new policy' not 'new packages'.
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Here are my thoughts:
If an entire Fedora package that has (an) EPEL branch(es) is orphaned, the EPEL branch(es) should probably be orphaned at the same time as the rawhide branch. Otherwise, we'd have to treat only orphaning an EPEL branch as a special case:
We could create an issue tracker for this. Packagers would have to submit a ticket requesting to orphan a certain package's EPEL branch(es) and set the EPEL Bugzilla assignee to "orphan" if they're orphaning all active EPEL branches. epel-devel@ could be CC'd on all issues. Then, we could have a provenpackager in the SIG go through and manually retire the packages that haven't been picked up after six weeks. The later will be difficult if we have a large volume, but I don't expect that. We could script this if necessary or just ask the submitter to do it themself.
This doesn't allow picking up packages in a self-service manner, but I don't think that's a huge deal for our case.
I'm not sure we want to CC epel-devel on these, perhaps we could have a script that processes them once a week or so and sends a summary to the list? But I am not sure how much volume we would expect here. ;(
I wonder if we could get some cycles from developers to adjust pagure-dist-git for this case to make it more self-service. (taking orphan packages over).
kevin