what do you want to know about EPEL?

[Bryan Kearney]

Summarizing what Lee Said.... Walk them through how they could get into 
EPEL, showing people from Fedora, Red Hat, the community as a whole, and 
ISV.

Reading into what Lee said.. I see a possible assumption embedded in (3a 
and 4a) that it is not the ISV. Is this true, or not.

Also.. explain how changes submitted to the EPEL code may or may not 
make it back upstream. I think there is a misunderstanging between what 
code is unique to EPEL, and what is pulled from upstream. Building on 
above, perhaps you walk them through initial inclusion and first bug.

I would also address the common stumbling blocks, and how to work around 
them.

--bk


Lee Faus wrote:
> When is you talk?  
> 
> 1) How do appliances fit into EPEL?
> 2) Is RPM a requirement for EPEL?
> 3) If we deploy to EPEL, do all of the packages we depend on need to be in EPEL as well?
> 3a) If so, who is responsible for getting those packages into EPEL?
> 4) How is Fedora/Community prepared to help getting business applications into EPEL?
> 4a) Are there FTEs devoted to getting business applications into EPEL?
> 5) Do you need to go through Fedora to get to EPEL?
> 
> Lee
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-isv-sig-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:08:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: what do you want to know about EPEL?
> 
> I'm doing the final work on my presentation on EPEL[1] at the Red Hat
> Summit, and I'm wondering if there any questions you all have I should
> address?
> 
> Generally, the approach is to describe what EPEL is (and what it isn't),
> and the various reasons why it is an important enough goal to warrant
> doing whatever it takes to get software in to RPM.
> 
> Also, I'm going to touch upon some of the new work we are doing to
> enable ISVs to be successful -- this SIG, the other sessions at the
> Summit and FUDCon, etc.
> 
> Let me know if there is anything you'd want to hear more of, less of,
> etc.
> 
> thx - Karsten
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL