[EPEL-devel] Current update policy?

[Dave Johansen]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:36:41 -0700
> Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the current update policy for EPEL? The stated one seems to be
> > along the lines of "no major changes" (
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy ) but it seems more like
> > "whatever the packager is willing to maintain" is the actual policy.
> >
> > I ask because a bugzilla was just opened against a package I maintain
> > ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201808 ) and I wanted
> > to know how I should handle it.
> >
> > Does it need to be closed as wontfix? Or should a "notice of upcoming
> > major update" policy be put in place to handle things like this?
>
> Rex already closed it as WONTFIX, however to expand on that:
>
> The current policy is to not change the user experence or require
> manual intervention on updates if at all possible. There are some cases
> where there's not much choice (like when the version shipped has
> serious security or data loss bugs and a upgrade to a new version is
> the only answer), but in those cases theres announcements to the
> epel-announce list and lots of time in testing.
>

Is that really true? The Qt 5 package in EPEL 6 has been updated several
times and I don't recall ever seeing an email/announcement/etc.
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