EPEL Meeting....

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/27/2010 11:23 PM, Mark Chappell wrote:
> On 27 September 2010 22:31, Kevin Fenzi<kevin at scrye.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:40:00 +0200
>> How about we spam maintainers one more time and do something like:
>>
>> "We've noticed you haven't built your EPEL6 package(s) yet.
>>
>> Since we would like to see a nice thriving ecosystem of packages, we
>> would like to mass orphan packages in EL6 that have not yet been built.
>> Then, interested folks could pick them up and build and maintain them.
>>
>> If you intend to build, but just haven't had a chance yet, feel free to
>> re-take ownership of the packages or join back as co-maintainer."
>>
>> Or is that too harsh?
>
> I have no problems with harsh however, RHEL-6 isn't GA at this point,
> I'd say that we spam them one last time with "Any packages not built
> by the EPEL meeting on October 11 (date pulled from thin air) will be
> orphaned"

Just remember that there are still packages missing from the EPEL builders, 
e.g. fftw, that are preventing other packages from being built.

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