[EPEL] EPEL -- the way forward

[Mike McGrath]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:47 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
>   
>> One idea we want to promote is making the packaging into a job role
>> instead of a personal side-project.  This is possible and useful where
>> your employer or other outside organization benefits from your package
>> in EPEL.  For example, your infrastructure requires package Foo be
>> rebuilt in EPEL.  If you make package maintenance part of your job role,
>> you gain:
>>     
>
> Is your intention to preclude people that _are_ doing it as a side
> project?
>   
not preclude but join them together.  I suspect the climate for EPEL 
will be a lot different from Extras.  It'll be interesting to see if 
someone like IBM comes in and starts working with Joe Blow on package B 
because IBM needs to roll it out to 20,000 customers.

    -Mike