On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 16:42, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:09:44PM -0800, Troy Dawson wrote:
I'm not sure this is all a super big deal, but I'd really like to make
sure we make _very_ clear who is responsible for what. Some maintainers
would be happy to maintain for that long cycle (from landing in
eln-extra now, to epel 10 next, to epel10... thats what... 13 years?),
but some may not, and some might be happy for part of it but not the
entire thing.
I thought we made a change 3-4 years ago. We stopped saying a maintainer has to maintain for 10 years. Packages in EPEL are from volunteers and volunteers come and go. Volunteers have different ideas of what they want to support at different times. In the same way that EPEL has no set of packages that is 'EPEL', it also can have no timeline for how long a package is going to be in the repository. If a maintainer decides they are done, and no one wants to take over the package.. it and everything that requires it can go.
[The reason being that the half-life of a volunteer in Fedora is about 3 years and we had a lot of dead packages where people thought they were being maintained, the maintainer was burnt out and not responding until we asked and they said 'they had stopped caring years ago.'.]
Anyhow, I like this proposal much more than early epel10{next}
branching. :)
kevin
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