Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:30:50 pm 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?
> - De we want a fixed set of packages when a RHEL release is made and
>   focus on major bugfixes and security updates from there on?
>
> Or maybe something in between, or even both at the same time in
> separate repositories... all is possible, as long as we have enough man
> power to make it happen.
>
> Matthias
I think somewhere in between.  with the maintainer being responsible for 
making the decision.  basically we want it to be as stable and consistent as 
possible but some times it just makes sense to update to a newer version.


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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE