package stability

[Mike McGrath]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) said: 
>   
>> Unlike in 'official' RHEL, I'd think the emphasis here is just on best 
>> effort for stability.  As long as we're cautious I think it will be fine.
>>     
>
> Anything we do should be very well documented, along the lines of:
>
>  "API and ABI stability for packages in EPEL is NOT guaranteed. If you are
>   an ISV, you should not base your software on these packages, or, if you do,
>   be prepared to ship your own version."
>
> Bill
At the same time though it would be nice to get ISV's actually 
maintaining / co-maintaining packages.

    -Mike