Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:43 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> > I would like to suggest the following plan for Enterprise Extras:
> > 
> > 1) There are 4 channels per {Scientific/Centos} Enterprise Linux
> >      extras
> >      extras-devel
> >      extras-testing
> >      extras-updates
> 
> Frankly, *way* too much complexity here.  Heck, we don't even have
> a -testing repo for FE yet.  When/if we figure out -testing for *all* of
> Extras, then EE will naturally benefit from it as well.
> 
> At least at first, I'd strongly recommend following usual Extras rolling
> Release policy for EE as well.

FYI, FESCo decided to call this EPEL (Extras Packages for Enterprise
Linux) per yesterday's meeting.  And we discussed EPEL quite a bit
yesterday.  The minutes should be available at some point.

josh