Re: golang 1.16 for epel7?

[Jakub Čajka]

Thank you very much for volunteering. I have added you(dwd) as contributor and committer for EPEL branches. BZs should switch to you.

If you would have any questions or need any help, feel free to ask.

JC

Jan 11, 2022, 18:11 by [e-mail]:
> Jakub,
>
> I volunteer to do golang updates on EPEL7.  I am the maintainer of
> singularity for EPEL/Fedora so I know how to use the tools.  Just add
> [e-mail].
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Jakub Čajka wrote:
> > I have been doing updates to EPEL on my spare time at best effort basis, usually
> > coupled to the work on the Go in Fedora. Unfortunately recently I don't have
> > much spare time to use there.
> >
> > I have been trying to keep the EPEL on the odd(just arbitrary coincidence)
> > release of Go for entirety of its life time. Giving EPEL stable version of Go
> > for roughly a year.
> >
> > Really from my perspective someone needs to show up to do the work there. EPEL's
> > golang is de facto orphaned for several years now(4+??). If anyone is
> > volunteering I will be happy to help with on-boarding/reviewing. Even just PR/MR
> > will be welcomed.
> >
> > JC
> >
> > On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 10:46 +0100, Alejandro Saez Morollon wrote:
> > > For the record, there's an ongoing conversation in this bug about this topic:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013628
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:01 AM Alejandro Saez Morollon 
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:36 AM Robert-André Mauchin 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On 12/1/21 20:11, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > > > > > What will it take to get golang updated on epel7 from the no longer
> > > > > > supported version 1.15?  RHEL8.5 reports a long list of security
> > > > > > problems that are fixed in 1.16.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Dave
> > > > >
> > > > > Jakub or Alex, do you know whose prerogative is this?
> > > >
> > > > I think Jakub is more appropriate than me to answer this question because I
> > > > never built EPEL but, as far as I remember, from a conversation with Jakub,
> > > > he was doing major upgrades of odd versions.
> > > > Mainly because a major version is going to be there for ~1 year and that
> > > > gives a little stability to the users of EPEL.
> > > > If what I said is accurate, the lack of 1.17 on Fedora is what made this
> > > > scenario.
> > > >
> > > > Nevertheless, Go 1.15 doesn't have support anymore from upstream so I would
> > > > say that we should upgrade it.
> > > > I have no problems with trying to upgrade it to 1.16 or 1.17.
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert-André
>
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