REMINDER: RHEL entitlements for EPEL maintainers

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings.

I thought I would drop a reminder here about RHEL entitlements for EPEL
maintainers. If you are a maintainer of packages in EPEL, you can get a
entitlement to run RHEL to help you test and fix your package(s).

See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_RHEL_Entitlements

for more information and process to request your entitlement.

Hopefully this is useful to some. ;)

kevin

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello.

2012/4/2 Kevin Fenzi :
> Greetings.
>
> I thought I would drop a reminder here about RHEL entitlements for EPEL
> maintainers. If you are a maintainer of packages in EPEL, you can get a
> entitlement to run RHEL to help you test and fix your package(s).

I didn't get it. Does this offer include a ssh access to the RHEL boxes?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:21:25 +0400
Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> Hello.
>
> 2012/4/2 Kevin Fenzi :
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I thought I would drop a reminder here about RHEL entitlements for
> > EPEL maintainers. If you are a maintainer of packages in EPEL, you
> > can get a entitlement to run RHEL to help you test and fix your
> > package(s).
>
> I didn't get it. Does this offer include a ssh access to the RHEL
> boxes?

No.

It means you can get a free entitlement from Red Hat to install RHEL on
your own hardware or virtual and get updates to that install from rhn. 
You must supply a machine or virtual platform to run it on.

kevin

[Russell Golden]

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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Fenzi  wrote:
>

[Peter Lemenkov]

2012/4/2 Kevin Fenzi :
> > I didn't get it. Does this offer include a ssh access to the RHEL
> > boxes?
>
> No.
>
> It means you can get a free entitlement from Red Hat to install RHEL on
> your own hardware or virtual and get updates to that install from rhn.
> You must supply a machine or virtual platform to run it on.

Not so interesting then - we've got SL and CentOS already.
Unfortunately some issues exists only on some particular arches and
EPEL maintainers don't have so many spare ppc64 boxes available to
experiment with.

[Karel Volný]

Hi,
> > It means you can get a free entitlement from Red Hat to
> > install RHEL on your own hardware or virtual and get updates
> > to that install from rhn. You must supply a machine or
> > virtual platform to run it on.
>
> Not so interesting then - we've got SL and CentOS already.

but CentOS and SL are not the same as RHEL even if they tell you 
so :-)
> Unfortunately some issues exists only on some particular arches
> and EPEL maintainers don't have so many spare ppc64 boxes
> available to experiment with.

_some_ EPEL maintainers have access to full set of supported 
architectures ... you can always try asking if someone is willing 
to test for you

ideally if you had some simple steps ready, like "run command 
xyz, send me the console output and log from /a/b/c.log, please"

if there's a bug in RH bugzilla for your issue, you can try 
putting me in QA contact (or on CC) and describe what do you need 
to test in the comment

K.

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:57:25AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I thought I would drop a reminder here about RHEL entitlements for EPEL
> maintainers. If you are a maintainer of packages in EPEL, you can get a
> entitlement to run RHEL to help you test and fix your package(s).
>
> See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_RHEL_Entitlements
>
> for more information and process to request your entitlement.
>
> Hopefully this is useful to some. ;)
>
> kevin

Thanks, Kevin.  Very cool.

Ray