On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:47 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:41 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > The idea to build Fedora (Extras) Packages for RHEL and compatible > > distros like CentOS in the scope of the Fedora Project is over half a > > year old now, but didn't really take of yet. This mail (and some other > > work in other places like the wiki) tries to actually get the idea > > running a bit more faster now in the hope that the project actually > > takes of soon. > > Thanks for stepping up and organizing us this far. It's really helping > make EPEL happen. > > > -- the package needs to be supported until the End Of Life (EOL) of the > > Distributions they were build for -- round about seven years. Sure, > > nobody of us knows if he still be around then. But you should not build > > packages for EPEL if you plan to moe oer to other stuff soon or find > > packaging really annoying > > One idea we want to promote is making the packaging into a job role > instead of a personal side-project. This is possible and useful where > your employer or other outside organization benefits from your package > in EPEL. For example, your infrastructure requires package Foo be > rebuilt in EPEL. If you make package maintenance part of your job role, > you gain: Is your intention to preclude people that _are_ doing it as a side project? josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
