EPEL epel7 planning and processes

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:36:48 -0700
> "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any chance an automatic build could be tacked on the end of that?
>> Seems like it would be pretty easy to add to your wiki script and
>> would save packagers a little manual effort.  Of course, then you have
>> to worry about build order and such so it might not be worth the
>> trouble... :-(
>
> Yeah, build order, if they want to adjust the packaging before
> building, if they are ready to build then, etc, etc.
> So, IMHO, a auto build is not a good idea.

Ack.

>> > (need to decide if the git branch name is el7 or epel7).
>>
>> "el7" please like the existing two?  Is there any particular reason
>> for it to be different?
>
> We might go with epel7. The reason is that some people seem to have
> confusion about the branches being 'elN'. "Oh, this is rhel6" No, it's
> epel6, not rhel.
>
> Overall pretty minor either way.

Yeah, I have some shell functions and little scripts that would have
to be adjusted, but they'd need to be adjusted to {6,7} anyway, so
whatever.

-T.C.