RHEL contacting EPEL maintainers when package goes into RHEL

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This last week in the EPEL Steering Committee meeting, we talked about
what happens when an EPEL package gets pulled in and released in RHEL.
There were a couple of people who said that had happened to them and
they were totally un-aware that it was going to happen.

I contacted a couple people in Red Hat and found out that part of the
New Package procedure includes an EPEL check.  If the package is in
EPEL they are supposed to contact the EPEL maintainer.  They are also
supposed to have the NVR higher than the EPEL version.

This is a new procedure, implemented in June 2020.

If you are a EPEL package maintainer, and your package was pulled into
RHEL 7 or 8, and you were not contacted, please let me know.  Red Hat
wants this procedure to work, because when things go wrong, it affects
their customers.

Their current way of finding out who to contact is to do the following

  curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/_dg/bzoverrides/rpms/<package name>
example
 $ curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/_dg/bzoverrides/rpms/git-lfs
  {
    "epel_assignee": "carlwgeorge",
    "fedora_assignee": "qulogic"
  }

If anyone knows of a better way to find the EPEL maintainer, please
let me know and I'll pass it on.

Troy Dawson
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