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

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 07:21:16 PM Karsten Wade wrote:
> On 09/22/2015 12:18 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> >>>>> Also, this would probibly be some kind of big deal to some
> >>>>> people who like that EPEL is built against rhel.
> >>>>> Personally, I don't think it matters, but it would have to
> >>>>> be communicated clearly.
> >>> 
> >>> (I also saw Karsten reply about it) It needs to be
> >>> communicated, but considering CentOS good history on that
> >>> matter, I personally don't think it's big deal, too.
> > 
> > It is a much bigger deal politically than technically
> 
> I agree it's a big deal, but think it's more about 'supportability',
> which is the crossroads for technical, end-user needs, business
> dynamics, community capability, and so forth.
> 
> I personally *like* that Red Hat support has comfort level with
> pointing customers at EPEL; I don't want that to change. To me that is
> a core promise from the community to our end-users, wherever they are
> from.

Completely agree, It is a change I would not really be comfortable making. 
Some of the politics around it comes from Sales guys in Red Hat and support 
people in Red Hat being comfortable saying go use EPEL, and they likely would 
not be if it was built against CentOS.  But I do not want to rule it out 
entirely and if we build i686 for epel7 it will have to be built against 
CentOS for i686

Dennis
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