On 09/25/2014 10:28 AM, Steve Traylen wrote:
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 .
I don't see that this prevents any other groups from participating at
all. The idea is for the benefit of the other groups as well, as they
ultimately would get a larger package set to use.
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.
It is defined. It's also perceived as cumbersome, laborious and painful,
and so many would-be contributors don't even attempt to contribute. This
is simply a proposal allowing those who are willing to act in place of
the original packagers to help contribute. This benefits every group
mentioned above, instead of keeping packages within the project.
Group ownership of pkgs in EPEL? So many people can own a package
already. I am unsure what the 'wrangler' group example is.
Why list 10 owners when you can list a single group?
Wranglers discussed and defined during last week's meeting:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-devel/2014-September/01015...
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