Hi,
It has been a pleasure for me to be a part of and help lead the EPEL steering committee for the last couple of years. It has not always been smooth sailing but I have found it an enjoyable experience.
However, as you may know the Fedora project will be moving to a different data-center later this spring (from Phoenix to northern Virginia). Being involved in the planning and implementation of this project, I do not think that I will be able to give EPEL the time investment it deserve for the next 6 to 9 months. With EPEL-8 still ramping up and the various opportunities with modularity, I do not think it is a fair that EPEL suffers from this lack of time.
As such, I would like to step down as chair/member of the steering committee and nominate Troy Dawson as my replacement. Troy formerly worked on Scientific Linux and has worked on OpenShift and other projects at Red Hat for the last several years. It is clear he has a good eye on the concerns and problems enterprise users have. Recently, Troy helped get the initial RHEL-8 and EPEL-8 out the door with multiple builds and updates to various macro files.
Once the move is completed and the close down of the old site is done, I look forward to getting involved again in EPEL.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:36 AM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It has been a pleasure for me to be a part of and help lead the EPEL steering committee for the last couple of years. It has not always been smooth sailing but I have found it an enjoyable experience.
However, as you may know the Fedora project will be moving to a different data-center later this spring (from Phoenix to northern Virginia). Being involved in the planning and implementation of this project, I do not think that I will be able to give EPEL the time investment it deserve for the next 6 to 9 months. With EPEL-8 still ramping up and the various opportunities with modularity, I do not think it is a fair that EPEL suffers from this lack of time.
As such, I would like to step down as chair/member of the steering committee and nominate Troy Dawson as my replacement. Troy formerly worked on Scientific Linux and has worked on OpenShift and other projects at Red Hat for the last several years. It is clear he has a good eye on the concerns and problems enterprise users have. Recently, Troy helped get the initial RHEL-8 and EPEL-8 out the door with multiple builds and updates to various macro files.
Once the move is completed and the close down of the old site is done, I look forward to getting involved again in EPEL.
Thank you Stephen for all that you've done for the EPEL community the past several years. I hope the move goes smooth so that you can return to us sooner, rather than later.
I will do my best to keep EPEL steering in the right direction.
Troy
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:12 PM Troy Dawson tdawson@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:36 AM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It has been a pleasure for me to be a part of and help lead the EPEL steering committee for the last couple of years. It has not always been smooth sailing but I have found it an enjoyable experience.
However, as you may know the Fedora project will be moving to a different data-center later this spring (from Phoenix to northern Virginia). Being involved in the planning and implementation of this project, I do not think that I will be able to give EPEL the time investment it deserve for the next 6 to 9 months. With EPEL-8 still ramping up and the various opportunities with modularity, I do not think it is a fair that EPEL suffers from this lack of time.
As such, I would like to step down as chair/member of the steering committee and nominate Troy Dawson as my replacement. Troy formerly worked on Scientific Linux and has worked on OpenShift and other projects at Red Hat for the last several years. It is clear he has a good eye on the concerns and problems enterprise users have. Recently, Troy helped get the initial RHEL-8 and EPEL-8 out the door with multiple builds and updates to various macro files.
Once the move is completed and the close down of the old site is done, I look forward to getting involved again in EPEL.
Thank you Stephen for all that you've done for the EPEL community the past several years. I hope the move goes smooth so that you can return to us sooner, rather than later.
I will do my best to keep EPEL steering in the right direction.
I second the nomination of Troy. He's been a pleasure to work with and has done fantastic work to bring KDE Plasma to RHEL/CentOS users after Red Hat ripped it out of RHEL for RHEL 8.
The fact that he's a member of modularity team means that he can easily take our feedback and have it incorporated into improving the system, which is a huge boon for us as RHEL 8 leverages that everywhere.
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