Dominik,
Thank you.

The first application-facing library that I ran into being missing from EPEL-8 is GDAL, which has been present in the Fedora repos for many years. It appears that the issue is more to do with available dependency packages than the library build itself. Specifically Doxygen is still absent form EPEL-8, though it appears that there is a Doxygen build for RHEL-8 or at least bugs being written against it <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=doxygen&list_id=10535640&product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%208>.


From: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@greysector.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 14:40
To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Self Introduction: Brian Sipos
 
Hello, Brian.

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 23:08, Brian Sipos wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been working with RHEL and CentOS packages since about 2011, but
> mostly in the domain of private Yum repositories. I've done some work
> in the past with the SUSE Build Service also. I'm familiar with
> Redhat/Fedora packaging guidelines but not with Fedora-specific
> development tooling. I've also been involved in the Redhat bugzilla
> and submitted several library patches for packaging (but never managed
> a package or package branch itself).

That's great! Welcome to Fedora.

> Since RHEL/CentOS 8 has been released now, I'm interested in helping
> with the migration of packages into the EPEL-8 repository. My focus is
> on some particular scientific computing packages which are available
> in EPEL-7 but not yet in EPEL- 8. I've not been able to find any good
> information about this type of thing; does anyone have any pointers?

Do you have any specific packages in mind? I maintain a number of
scientific packages but I'd be happy to hand over some of them to
someone who's actually using them.

> My first thought would be to start rebuilding "fc28" packages for
> "el8" but I don't want to duplicate effort if there is already
> coordinated EPEL-8 targeting for some of these packages. The link at <
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_do_I_request_a_EPEL_branch_for_an_existing_Fedora_package.3F
> > points to the old "PackageDB" process but that appears to be
> > superseded by the
> "fedpkg" tool. I suppose I need to be an approved package developer
> even to do local EPEL-8 -targeted builds.

Best way would be to open a bug against the package you'd like to see
the EPEL8 branch for and offer to maintain the branch or contact the
maintainer(s) directly (via package_name-owner@fedoraproject.org alias).

Finally, there's the SciTech SIG, which is barely active but has its own
mailing list and an IRC channel, too:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG?rd=SciTech_special_interest_group

Regards,
Dominik
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