Re: rethinking the epel testing

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:11:31PM +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> 1. The majority of people who use EPEL are not Fedora users. They are
> more likely to report a bug they encounter, in CentOS forums (or RHEL)
> rather than understand fedora process and the need for karma.

Can we help steer those people into understanding Bodhi? It's not like
a deep knowledge of all things Fedora is required.


> I do not have any good suggestion, other than reducing the long period
> of testing to the Fedora defaults (7 days). A better approach would be
> to tie more to centos processes, and allow centos registered users to
> give karma and test, but I have no idea how feasible it is, and whether
> centos users will actually get involved in EPEL.

I think we should be able to do federated authentication with CentOS
and accept CentOS accounts as valid for meaningful karma. But I'd
really rather encourage just getting Fedora accounts and helping draw
people who are in the Fedora community though EPEL into more close
connections.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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