Excerpts from Antonio Trande's message of 2014-09-25 17:15:45 +0200:
Hi Jim.
On 09/25/2014 04:36 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> Earlier this week on the CentOS devel list I proposed an interim method
> to help make it easier for centos contributions to flow into epel.
>
> Essentially the proposal is that CentOS would like a 'curator' group
> (name can be determined later) similar to the wrangler's group.
>
> Members of this group would be responsible for shepherding packages
> designated by the various SIG efforts in CentOS through the process of
> getting these packages in epel. This means that rather than having an
> individual owner, packages would have group ownership. Members of this
> group will be required to have access to make package modifications on
> the CentOS side so that they meet the packaging standards for EPEL.
> Additionally, it would help to have an EPEL proven packager as part of
> the group as well in order to help make things move a little quicker.
>
> Would this be acceptable from an EPEL standpoint? What would be required
> from an EPEL perspective to make this happen?
>
EPEL is for RHEL, Scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprice other than CentOS; would we need of
special "curator" group for every distro?
CentOS contributions could flow simply by taking part on EPEL and by integrating any
special (previously discussed) packaging need .
This would be my take also, getting pkgs into EPEL is a pretty well
defined process as is a becoming a packager. I don't see an extra step/group
is needed within CentOS is needed.
Group ownership of pkgs in EPEL? So many people can own a package
already. I am unsure what the 'wrangler' group example is.
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Steve Traylen, CERN IT.