On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:40:10 +0100 Andrew Elwell <andrew.elwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Feel free to apply as a co-maintainer :) > > OK I may just do that if these patches look OK. > > > What we might want to do is package up a parallel installable > > 'collectd5' for epel6. This would allow people to migrate to it as > > desired. I'm not sure how difficult it will be to parallel install > > it however. > > would collectd5 then obsolete collectd on epel6 then? > (not sure how the logistics of paralell (or not) installs work No. Users would be able to user either collectd (4.x) or install collectd5 and switch to that. Updates should be available to both streams. If at some point down the road upstream stops supporting 4.x and maintainers are unable to backport all the fixes, at that point they could look at dropping support for it, or migrating users to 5. kevin
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