[EPEL-devel] EPEL meeting minutes 2015-01-09

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9 January 2015 at 13:04, Mátyás Selmeci <matyas at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

>  On 01/09/15 12:04, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/epel/2015-01-09/epel.2015-01-09-17.00.log.html
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> 17:03:30 <smooge> OK we don't have much old business from the last meeting because it was a couple of weeks ago17:03:45 <smooge> We had the orphaning and tyll found some bugs in his script that didn't show all the orphans17:03:52 <smooge> so we have another batch.17:04:23 * bstinson hasn't had a chance to look through the email yet, how bad is it looking?17:04:36 <smooge> nirik, bstinson do we want to have another orphan day or just have tyll do them when he has a chance?17:04:48 <smooge> bstinson, it isn't any better than it was before the last one :)17:04:54 * Jeff_S here a bit late17:05:16 <nirik> did we say 6 weeks or something? or has the timeout already expired.17:05:33 <smooge> nirik, most of these packages are over 6 weeks (some are 22)17:05:48 <nirik> perhaps one last warn email and do them next week?17:05:57 <bstinson> +117:06:06 <smooge> ok will send out an email and ask tyll to do them next week around Thursday?
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>   Hi,
> Are the orphan purges going to be batched in the future, or will they be
> automatic once a package hits that 6-week mark? What kind of advance
> warning can users expect before these packages (and their dependents) get
> removed?
> -Mat
>

As far as I understand it is not possible to automate this. Thus it will
always be sort of batched. There is a weekly email which covers what
packages are currently orphaned. People should watch for those if they are
interested.

Does that answer the question? [Sorry headache so words not working well.]


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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