This is a proposal. It's mainly writing down what I think most of us agreed on at last weeks EPEL Steering Committee meeting. Feel free to continue to discuss and/or have ideas. I've been asked by a couple places what the plans were, so I'm writing it here. Overall Plan: - epel-next is an epel branch that is built against CentOS Stream. epel-next only has the packages that would be incompatible with released RHEL builds, or if an EPEL maintainer is updating a package that will only be released to regular EPEL at the next RHEL release. - We plan on creating epel9-next when CentOS 9 Stream has a public repository. We plan on using the EPEL Packaging SIG to populate it early with common packages, although any EPEL package maintainers can add their packages whenever they want. - We plan on creating normal EPEL9 after the RHEL 9.0 GA release, just like normal. No sooner. All epel9-next packages will be rebuilt on EPEL9. They will not be "tagged over". This rebuild should be by whoever built it in epel9-next. Approximate Timelines: - All of these timelines depend on (A) CentOS 9 Stream / RHEL9 actual dates and (B) availability of EPEL volunteers. Please note, EPEL is completely volunteers, and sometimes "day jobs" make EPEL timelines slip. - epel9-next - July 2021 -- CentOS 9 Stream should have a public repository in April 2021 -- Should take about 3 months to setup - epel9 - October 2022 -- RHEL 9.0 should be released around May 2022 -- Should take about 5 months to setup -- Note: It takes longer because it has to deal with getting packages from an internal RHEL repo and all the complications of doing that. EPEL Packaging SIG - We hope to utilize the EPEL Packaging SIG as much as possible. - This might be as simple as having them rebuild a epel9-next package on epel9, or possibly maintaining a package when the Fedora packager does not want to do EPEL. - More details will be coming, but we hope the SIG will help get alot of the most used EPEL packages into EPEL9 as soon as possible. Troy Dawson _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
