EPEL bug day is fast approaching and we are looking for your help. This is a chance to get involved with EPEL and help make the overall product a little better. Goal: Reduce or update bugs from EPEL. Strategy: The vast majority of EPEL bugs have been classified loosely into three categories. * ActualBug -- A real bug, often times with upstream software issues, or perhaps packaging dependencies. To triage, see if you can reproduce, ask for more input, and in general see what can be done to fix it. * PackageBranch -- This is a request to get something into EPEL that currently isn't there. To triage, see if the package has been branched in CVS. Perhaps the maintainer simply hasn't built it yet. Or, if it requires dependencies, contact the maintainer for those dependencies, open another bug, and create the proper relationship between them. * UpdatePackage -- Requests to update packages can be difficult in EPEL, but each should be evaluated. Ask for reasons why the update is required (security is an extremely valid reason). Sometimes the old version is no longer maintained upstream, etc. Keep in mind that updates that cause breakage should at least be mentioned on the epel-announce mailing list. Feel free to take a bug and help out. It's a 24 hour event, and we have about 135 bugs. If we can get 6 bugs an hour triage and updated, that would be all of them. Event coordination and collaboration will occur in #epel on irc.freenode.net. (Also you don't have to wait until July 11 to start) More Information: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Bug_Day_July_2009 Current Bug List * http://tr.im/epelbugs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
