Reminder: Next meeting on 20080116 at 18:00 UTC
Summary will be part of this weeks report (as always)
00:00:01 < knurd> | Hi everybody; who's around for the EPEL meeting? 00:00:01 * | knurd likes to remind everyone that the schedule for todays meeting as well as a list of all open tasks can be found on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule 00:00:01 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Sig meeting -- Meeting rules at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MeetingGuidelines -- Init process 00:00:14 < mmcgrath> | pong 00:00:14 * | nirik is here. 00:00:35 --> | stahnma (Michael Stahnke) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:00:46 < knurd> | ohh, and happy new year everyone 00:01:03 < EvilBob> | happy new year knurd 00:01:11 * | _blah_ can't believe it is 2008 already 00:01:17 < stahnma> | greeting's ya'll 00:01:38 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | next testing -> stable move | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove 00:01:40 < nirik> | happy new year back at you all. 00:01:47 * | quaid is here 00:01:47 < knurd> | so let's start 00:02:03 < knurd> | I wrote to the list about $TOPIC already 00:02:16 < knurd> | I'll prepare the next move this WE 00:02:20 < knurd> | for EPEL4 00:02:22 < nirik> | yeah, that sounds good. I think we should setup specific times for stable pushes. 00:02:31 < nirik> | ie, should it be every 2 weeks? every month? 00:02:32 < knurd> | yeah, might be a good idea 00:02:39 < knurd> | every four weeks? 00:02:41 < nirik> | so people know when to expect it, rather than ad-hoc 00:03:24 < knurd> | EPEL5 early each month, EPEL4 mid each month? 00:03:29 < nirik> | every 4 weeks sounds ok to me... 00:03:50 < nirik> | so how long does something need to be in testing? a full 4 weeks? or ? 00:04:16 < knurd> | at least two weeks? 00:04:25 < mmcgrath> | <nod> a schedule. 00:05:12 < nirik> | 2 weeks seems ok. So, around the 1st for epel5, and around the 15th for epel4? 00:05:19 < knurd> | nirik, +1 00:05:31 < knurd> | I'd say I write that to the list and ask for opinions 00:05:39 < knurd> | if that's fine for everyone we just do it 00:05:48 < stahnma> | fine with me 00:06:08 < nirik> | fine with me. I think a regular schedule is good. Let me know if you want me to try and do any of the pushes... 00:06:16 * | knurd will move on then if no one yells 00:06:27 < knurd> | nirik, I'll try to write down the proceedure next time 00:06:55 < nirik> | ok, I'd be happy to help, or just let you do it. ;) 00:07:07 < knurd> | :) 00:07:09 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | EL-updates to the buildsys | unassigned | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc 00:07:25 < knurd> | dgilmore, mmcgrath, how hard would be to realize that? 00:07:42 < mmcgrath> | using RHEL, not sure. 00:07:42 < knurd> | there was this build problem from remi on the list 00:07:45 < mmcgrath> | it'd be easy with CentOS. 00:08:14 < knurd> | https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00000.html 00:08:17 < mmcgrath> | We just need to figure out a way to keep the RHEL tree updated in an easy way. 00:08:26 * | nirik suggests we switch to centos? :) 00:08:48 * | mmcgrath one sec on the phone with IBM 00:08:50 < knurd> | nirik, that creates just problems in the other direction 00:09:02 < knurd> | and no support for ppc (yet) 00:09:07 < nirik> | yeah, I suppose... ;( 00:09:18 < stahnma> | can we just get entitlements from RH? 00:09:26 < stahnma> | this seems like it shouldn't be THAT hard 00:09:30 < knurd> | and people yeeling "why didn't you update to RHEL 5.2" 00:09:33 < mmcgrath> | we have entitlements from RH but its a matter of keeping it up to date. 00:09:58 < _blah_> | do we just fix build problems as they come up for now? 00:10:08 < knurd> | mmcgrath, can't reposync solve the problem? 00:10:18 < mmcgrath> | possibly. 00:10:19 < knurd> | _blah_, until now we ignored the problem 00:10:28 < _blah_> | knurd: :) 00:10:38 < knurd> | _blah_, that's why I ddin#t answer yet on remi's mail 00:10:42 < mmcgrath> | We're doing similar things in our infrastructure already. how often would we propose running it? 00:10:42 < nirik> | so does it require manually pulling updates and adding them to plague right now? 00:11:02 < dgilmore> | mmcgrath: daily or weekly 00:11:03 < knurd> | mmcgrath, a cronjob that runs once or twiecea day maybe? 00:11:18 < knurd> | s/twiecea/twice a/ 00:11:20 < dgilmore> | knurd: certainly not more than once a day 00:11:40 < nirik> | daily would be great. 00:11:50 < nirik> | weekly would be ok if daily causes issues IMHO 00:11:57 < knurd> | dgilmore, well, if we get stuff into EPEL that depends on a specific firefox then daily is a minimum 00:12:07 < knurd> | or how is the firefox problem handled in EL? 00:12:18 < knurd> | is there s stable firefox abi? 00:12:24 < nirik> | I don't think rhel pushes updates more often than once a day anyhow, does it? 00:12:27 --> | awjb (Andreas Bierfert) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:12:37 < nirik> | no, no stable abi... it's firefox-devel like fedora. 00:12:41 < dgilmore> | knurd: rhel is lucky to get updates weekly 00:13:03 < knurd> | dgilmore, yeah, but if there is a new firefox we should rebuild stuff against ir quickly 00:13:14 < dgilmore> | knurd: there is no way it should be done more than daily 00:13:18 < nirik> | daily would be great if possible... dgilmore, could you set that up? 00:13:24 < dgilmore> | nirik: no 00:14:02 * | Jeff_S shows up a bit late... 00:14:06 < nirik> | ok. :) perhaps mmcgrath could? 00:14:12 < knurd> | who can set this up? Does anyone from us besides dgilmore and mmcgrath have access to the machines? 00:14:43 < mmcgrath> | knurd: anyone in sysadmin-main 00:14:46 < dgilmore> | knurd: it is not a matter of just having access 00:15:11 * | quaid senses a stronger objection 00:15:15 < knurd> | dgilmore, --verbose? 00:15:46 --> | kital (JoergSimon) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:16:30 < mmcgrath> | we'd have to make sure we're getting all the various channels copying them to the right place and running the createrepo script on them. 00:16:30 --- | rdieter is now known as rdieter_away 00:16:35 < mmcgrath> | it can all be scripted. 00:16:49 < mmcgrath> | at least I think it can. 00:16:58 < mmcgrath> | we also have to do bad things to get it to contact RHN properly. 00:17:50 <-- | mbacovsk has quit (Remote closed the connection) 00:18:07 < knurd> | so, what to do? 00:18:10 < knurd> | put it on a todo list 00:18:11 < mmcgrath> | So the decision has been made? "We want this to run daily?" or some such thing? 00:18:12 < nirik> | well, the other options I see: do the updates at the same time as the stable pushes? 00:18:18 < knurd> | put it high on the todo-list 00:18:24 < knurd> | ignore the problem? 00:18:25 < nirik> | or just: 'apply updates as people require them' ? 00:18:29 < mmcgrath> | make a ticket it - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ 00:18:35 --> | mbacovsk (Martin Bacovsky) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:18:56 * | knurd will file a ticket 00:19:04 < knurd> | then we can see where we get from there 00:19:10 < knurd> | that okay for everybody? 00:19:43 < nirik> | sure. I think daily would be great, but less often would be fine too. 00:19:54 < knurd> | nirik, yeah, for the start less often should do 00:20:00 * | knurd moves on 00:20:03 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | RHEL MetaData | stahnma | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData 00:20:05 < knurd> | stahnma ? 00:21:00 < stahnma> | sorry 00:21:08 < stahnma> | not much to update 00:21:14 < stahnma> | I am working on it 00:21:21 < stahnma> | and didn't have much time over the holidays 00:21:24 < stahnma> | am hoping for more very soon 00:21:31 < knurd> | k :) 00:21:38 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel 00:21:41 < knurd> | mmcgrath, any news? 00:22:01 < mmcgrath> | knurd: nothing over the holidays. We're hopeful but nothing concrete yet. 00:22:06 < dgilmore> | knurd: do the work or find someone to do it for you. it will not happen until then 00:22:08 < knurd> | k 00:22:22 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | permission to use spec files in other projects | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc 00:22:36 < knurd> | as written to the list: made noise about it on FAB-list 00:22:41 * | knurd skips 00:22:46 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL SIG Meeting | Free discussion around EPEL 00:22:52 < knurd> | anything else to discuss? 00:23:28 < knurd> | quaid, _blah_, Jeff_S, mmcgrath, nirik, anything else? 00:23:33 * | nirik has nothing else... 00:23:39 < Jeff_S> | not me 00:23:59 * | knurd will close the meeting in 30 00:24:02 < quaid> | we doing anything special at FUDCon? 00:24:08 * | mmcgrath has nothing 00:24:43 < tibbs> | I had one minor thing. 00:24:50 < knurd> | tibbs, shoot 00:24:54 < nirik> | it might be nice to do something at fudcon, but not sure what. 00:25:02 < knurd> | quaid, not sure, I leave that to those guys that travel there 00:25:07 < tibbs> | Recently there was a review for an EPEL-only package. 00:25:12 < quaid> | we could have a hackfest with virtual folk, too 00:25:27 < quaid> | if there is work to be done :) 00:25:34 < tibbs> | The only real issue with that review is what to do with the devel branch. 00:25:45 < nirik> | tibbs: I would say dead.package it. 00:26:01 < tibbs> | Yeah, I did say that, but it only works if the package isn't supposed to be there for EPEL6. 00:26:20 < nirik> | it shouldn't be... it's only old old rhel4 that needs it. 00:26:24 < knurd> | tibbs, what's the #bug/reason for not having a devel branch? 00:26:37 * | knurd botes for dead.package in devel as well 00:26:41 < dgilmore> | you can just never import into devel 00:26:58 < f13> | knurd: the epel package may have been rolled into some other package in devel 00:27:00 < nirik> | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426929 00:27:01 < bugbot_> | Bug 426929: medium, medium, ---, Jason Tibbitts, ASSIGNED , Review Request: tetex-lineno - Add line numbers on paragraphs in LaTeX 00:27:17 < nirik> | basically it's in tetex/texlive in all other releases. 00:27:31 < knurd> | well, nevertheless I vote for dead.package 00:27:36 < knurd> | scripts are used to it 00:27:36 < tibbs> | In this case it doesn't apply to anything beyond EPEL4 but I can't say that would be the case for any future EPEL-only packages. 00:27:52 < knurd> | better that then scripts that fail if they don#t find a devel branch at all 00:28:02 < tibbs> | Of course, EPEL-only packages may be sufficiently rare that this isn't a real issue. 00:28:10 < tibbs> | This is the first one I encountered. 00:28:41 < _blah_> | is there any kind of design doc for how to implement the koji features to support EPEL? 00:29:18 < knurd> | _blah_, taking to hte koji author as well as with dgilmore and mmcgrath might be the best start 00:29:33 < knurd> | tibbs, agreed, should not happen often 00:29:51 < knurd> | but what to do? I still think having a dead.package in devel is the best 00:29:55 < nirik> | _blah_: see the ticket: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/koji/ticket/49 00:31:24 < _blah_> | nirik: thx 00:31:37 < knurd> | tibbs, what was done? for the package in question 00:32:39 < knurd> | ohh, there is a dead.package in the devel branch 00:32:46 < knurd> | I'd say that's fine 00:33:25 < knurd> | fudcon? 00:33:38 < knurd> | who will be there from the EPEL SIG? 00:34:10 * | mmcgrath will be. 00:34:33 * | nirik will be there. 00:34:38 * | knurd does not plan to fly half around the world 00:36:09 < knurd> | nirik, quaid, mmcgrath, maybe you three can work something out for FUDCon? 00:36:46 < nirik> | well, the one thing I can think of would be to do a 'what is epel and why I should branch my packages for it' type session... 00:37:08 <-- | mbacovsk has quit (Remote closed the connection) 00:37:13 < knurd> | nirik, sounds good 00:37:33 < knurd> | seems most people left 00:37:38 < knurd> | I#d say we close the meeting 00:37:52 * | knurd will close the meeting in 30 00:37:55 < nirik> | sounds fine. 00:38:12 * | knurd will close the meeting in 10 00:38:23 < knurd> | -- MARK -- Meeting end 00:38:23 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: Channel is used by various Fedora groups and committees for their regular meetings | Note that meetings often get logged | For questions about using Fedora please ask in #fedora | See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel for meeting schedule 00:38:28 < knurd> | thx all 00:38:29 < mmcgrath> | knurd: thanks! 00:38:35 --> | spoleeba (spacious he's so) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:39:14 < quaid> | nirik +1 to that session idea 00:39:27 --- | You're now known as knurd_afk 00:39:28 < knurd_afk> | cu 00:39:32 < nirik> | I guess I can add it to the wiki... 00:39:34 < quaid> | ciao 00:39:41 < nirik> | quaid: you going to be at fudcon? 00:43:16 < quaid> | nirik: I plan to
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