Release and update procedure for EPEL

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Feb 27 19:34:58 UTC 2007


Matthias Saou wrote:
> FP! :-)
> 
> Joke aside, I'd like to see which views we have on the release and
> update procedure to apply to EPEL.
> 
> - Do we want a moving (and potentially breaking) set of packages which
>   is constantly being updated?
> - Do we want a fixed set of packages when a RHEL release is made and
>   focus on major bugfixes and security updates from there on?

While some folks certainly have an interest in the latter, I think it 
wiser to simply focus on the former, at least until we reach a critical 
mass of packages/maintainers.  At that point, reconsideration would be 
reasonable.

-- Rex




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