On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:22:07 -0700
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of the issues that I am finding is that most software these days
has only a 3 year lifetime at best.. if you want it to be longer you
are going to pay for it either by maintaining it yourself or paying
someone else. The work to try and keep software 'stable' over a 6
month lifetime seems to grow exponentially so that by the end of the 3
years it is 1000 times harder than it was in the beginning. Now the
number of people who are wanting to work on this older software for
free (or if they are doing it for themselves to share it for "free")
is incredibly small. I expect that we are looking at 10 packages in
EPEL maybe? So we are going to be looking at rebasing and updates
every 2-3 years no matter what for the majority of software. Expecting
it not to be like that is Cnut's tidal problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves
An additional issue with SCL's is that we have no guidelines on them.
While I suppose EPEL could add them with it's own guidelines, I would
be against that given that Fedora couldn't finalize them.
kevin