EPEL (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk))

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/22/2013 02:52 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:28:52PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> What better time to move epel out of Fedora since is really not
>> related to Fedora et all but is strictly for downstream distribution
>> based upon us to use ( like RHEL and it's clones )
>>
> I'm not sure what you think needs to be "moved out of Fedora".  Governance
> of EPEL is separate.  Packagers are allowed to be independent.  in your
> previous post you mention the word "infrastructure".  If you're just talking
> about the fact that epel shares the same koji, bodhi, git, etc with Fedora,
> I'm not sure what harm those do to us right now and I can see a large amount
> of benefit in terms of the manpower required to maintain those systems.

For Epel yes, for RHEL yes for Fedora no

> Could you please go into what is troubling you more?

Reluctant changes and cleanups to components and their spec files and 
our packing guidelines due to them being maintained in Epel and RHEL.

Put epel under RHEL-EXTRA or it's own domain or something and be done 
with it so our project process is not limited RHEL or other downstream 
distribution to us.

JBG