[EPEL-devel] [Proposal] Converge EPEL and CBS

[Karsten Wade]

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On 09/22/2015 11:35 AM, Dave Johansen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Remi Collet
> <Fedora at famillecollet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Le 21/09/2015 16:12, Haïkel a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Since the CentOS acquihire, there was a lot of discussion about
>>> EPEL's
>> future.
>>> Since the FOSDEM meetup between Fedora/CentOS folks, there was
>>> little progress on that topic
>> 
>> Just enable EPEL in CBS, and that's all.
>> 
>> Remi.
>> 
>> 
>> P.S. and explain to SIG member how to contribute to EPEL.
>> 
> 
> +1. I agree that using EPEL rather than trying to replace it is a
> much better solution.

AIUI, the concern is that what is labeled/supported by the CentOS
Project as 'CentOS' needs to go through the CentOS Project QA system.
We simply cannot blindly accept builds from outside of the CentOS
builders just on say-so. (Compare to RPMfusion et al -- putting that
repo in as a default for Fedora users is more than a legal issue, it's
a QA/test/build/sign/release issue.)

Two possible pathways from there are:

1. Rebuild all of EPEL in cbs.centos.org for SIGs to use; make it
available as an alternate repo (of just rebuilt packages); encourage
people to choose EPEL otherwise without an associated QA endorsement.

2. Figure out how to test EPEL 100% against CentOS (such as Fedora's
Koji builds EPEL against CentOS and runs all latest CentOS Project QA
before signing and shipping.)

On the latter, I only have an indication that might work -- I defer to
the CentOS and EPEL experts to figure out the technical how-to. :) But
once they are done & happy, I'd then be happy to sign-off on calling
the result 'CentOS'.

Regards,

- - Karsten
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