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

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 08:45:32 PM Karsten Wade wrote:
> 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.)

I disagree here, it is entirely a legal issue, if there were not the legal 
issue to deal with then the packages would be in Fedora and the rest is taken 
care of.

> 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.

This seems wasteful, but is an option.

> 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.)
We are unlikely to build EPEL against CentOS except for arches not supported 
by Red Hat (i686 today).  But we should be able to setup tests in taskotron 
that test against CentOS as well as against RHEL.  that is something I could 
fully support.

> 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'.

We would need to engage the QA team to see what we can do in taskotron exactly

Dennis
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