On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 20:21 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Just a heads up -- the EPEL Steering Committee today decided this: > > ---- > > EPEL branching if Fedora maintainer does not react > > If an EPEL maintainer wants to get a Fedora package into EPEL he should > first check if he the ContributorStatus document, located in the wiki at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus . > > If the Fedora maintainer of the package has indicated there a desire not > to participate in EPEL then the EPEL maintainer can request the branch > directly via the standard procedures (e.g. via bugzilla currently). The > EPEL maintainer should CC the Fedora maintainer on the branch request, > so the Fedora maintainer knows that the package is maintained in EPEL as > well. > > If it's unclear if the Fedora maintainer of the package participates in > EPEL then the EPEL maintainer should mail the Fedora maintainer and ask > about their plans for EPEL in general and the package at hand. If there > is no answer within seven days the EPEL maintainer is free to request > the EPEL branch (CC the Fedora maintainer here as well). If the Fedora > maintainer later wants to participate in EPEL in general and maintain > this package, then the EPEL maintainer of the package should hand > primary per release maintainership back to the Fedora maintainer (and > become comaintainer, if interested). > > ---- > > If that's not okay for FESCo or those reading this mail please speak up > now before EPEL maintainers start acting according to it (note that I > send a variant of this text this this list one week ago as RFC; no > replies). I've got no problem with it. Seems like a reasonable policy. /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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