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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Hi!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>There are people around that would like
to see some of your Fedora packages in Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>(EPEL) [1] -- I for example would
like to see mono-2.4 in EPEL5 and mainly send you this mail on behalf of the
EPEL team as you didn't yet let the team know via the Contributor Status
[2] page if you are planning to build some or all of your Fedora packages
for EPEL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Are you interested in maintaining your
packages in EPEL? EPEL is similar to Fedora Extras -- just that EPEL is a
add-on repo for RHEL and compatible spinoffs such as CentOS. EPEL uses the same
CVS and the same build servers as Fedora and a lot of Fedora maintainers are
EPEL maintainers as well; the main difference is just that packages in EPEL are
updated more carefully and supported for a longer timeframe. See [3] and
[4] for details. In short: EPEL tries to ship a package once and update
it to later versions only when there is a strong need to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>For branching your packages for EPEL
follow the standard Fedora procedure[5] -- instead of FC-6 or F-7 targets
just use EL-4 or EL-5 as branch names. If you maintain several packages (>
2) you can also use a scripted branching method (all packages from a
contributor) by using the scripted branch process[6] .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>If you are not interested in EPEL please
let the EPEL contributors know and update the information on [2] to avoid
further mails like this -- that just takes a minute or two and would be a great
help for the EPEL team. Please note that EPEL maintainers that might want to
see your package in EPEL will likely start to maintain the package in EPEL
sooner or later and thus become co-maintainers [7] of your packages for
EPEL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I have done a little work by patching
your mono-2.4 spec to make it can be build under the RHEL5 environment. The
attachment is the nosrc.rpm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The EPEL team appreciate your help with
EPEL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[1] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[2] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[3] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[4] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[5] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[6] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MichaelStahnke/ScriptedBranchProcess">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MichaelStahnke/ScriptedBranchProcess</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>[7] <a
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/EncourageComaintainership">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/EncourageComaintainership</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Kirby
Zhou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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