Summary/Minutes from todays EPEL meeting - 2010-01-15

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:46:52PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:07:35 +0100
> > Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> >
> > > Hiyas,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:34:00PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > >
> > > > EPEL swimming in the RHEL channels (nirik, 21:23:24)
> > > > ACTION: smooge will generate a list of packages that are not
> > > > following our new current policy. (nirik, 22:03:43) ACTION:
> > > > dgilmore or nirik will block them. (nirik, 22:04:12)
> > >
> > > is there now a new policy or will the currenty policy stay ? And what
> > > does the policy say?
> >
> > Sorry, we should have spelled that out in the summary.
> >
> > EPEL packages must never conflict with packages in RHEL-AP.
> > EPEL packages can conflict with packages in other RHEL channels.
> > EPEL maintainers should be open to communication from RHEL maintainers
> > and try and accommodate them by not shipping specific packages, or by
> > adjusting the package in EPEL to better handle a conflicting package in
> > a channel on a case by case basis.
> >
> > At least I think thats what we all agreed to?
> > Comments/clarifications/etc?
> >
> > We need to word this up nicer, update the wiki, and send an email to
> > the announce list. Anyone want to help with any of those parts?
> >
> 
> I know I should know what AP stands for but... what does AP stand for in
> RHEL-AP?
> 

Advanced Platform?  (Assuming this means including the Clustering
channels and such)

Ray