[EPEL-devel] Re: Improving EPEL updates process
On 12/13/2015 01:26 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
One part of this is that not a lot of people are using 7 compared to
6. This was sort of the case for EL-6 that didn't see a huge jump in
growth until CentOS had EL-6.3 . Second of all there isn't a lot of
people active in packaging stuff in EPEL as have been in the past
versus the number of people wanting things. If people have ideas and
will be at FOSDEM I would love to talk with you.
I would like to help getting EPEL7 is a better shape because every now
and them we consider not using it due to outdated packages missing
security fixes.
I tried to go over the steps required to become a packager and was a bit
surprised with the overhead (things not related to getting the creating
the RPM), for a beginner. Do you have any tips to someone just starting
out? Any updated docs that focus on the bare basics to get things moving?
If improving EPEL7 could be broken into smaller tasks that people can do
whenever they have time, I think it'd make things move faster.
Thank you,
Giovanni