Summary/Minutes from todays EPEL meeting - 2010-01-15

[Xavier Lamien]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:46:52PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:07:35 +0100
>> > Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hiyas,
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:34:00PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > EPEL swimming in the RHEL channels (nirik, 21:23:24)
>> > > > ACTION: smooge will generate a list of packages that are not
>> > > > following our new current policy. (nirik, 22:03:43) ACTION:
>> > > > dgilmore or nirik will block them. (nirik, 22:04:12)
>> > >
>> > > is there now a new policy or will the currenty policy stay ? And what
>> > > does the policy say?
>> >
>> > Sorry, we should have spelled that out in the summary.
>> >
>> > EPEL packages must never conflict with packages in RHEL-AP.
>> > EPEL packages can conflict with packages in other RHEL channels.
>> > EPEL maintainers should be open to communication from RHEL maintainers
>> > and try and accommodate them by not shipping specific packages, or by
>> > adjusting the package in EPEL to better handle a conflicting package in
>> > a channel on a case by case basis.
>> >
>> > At least I think thats what we all agreed to?
>> > Comments/clarifications/etc?
>> >
>> > We need to word this up nicer, update the wiki, and send an email to
>> > the announce list. Anyone want to help with any of those parts?
>> >
>>
>> I know I should know what AP stands for but... what does AP stand for in
>> RHEL-AP?
>>
>
> Advanced Platform?  (Assuming this means including the Clustering
> channels and such)
>

Correct.


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