On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:13:41 -0500
Greg Swift <gregswift(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So... I've paid attention to the conversations around this because i
> was a long time zabbix user, so it affected me in that I had to build
> my own 'latest' packages usually or download from the maintainer's
> personal repository. If I remember correctly it has also been
> discussed around lots of web apps like bugzilla as well.
Yeah.
There's a lot of apps out there that have a different release cycle
that RHEL has, so we have to try and adjust to that. Keeping in mind
that most people who are using RHEL don't like things changing very
much.
Here's an alternative proposal I've been mentally kicking around...
Red Hat itself sometimes rebases software between minor point releases
(eg 6.0 to 6.1). Could we allow EPEL maintainers to push
"non-backwards-compatible updates" at specific dates that match RHEL's
minor point release schedule?
As Greg points out, EPEL is essentially a rolling release today
anyway. This would just provide a bit more structure to the rolling.
Also, I'm hoping this would not require as much infrastructure work on
EPEL's side.
- Ken